12/1/2005
The BellSouth Mafioso
So I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, BellSouth is just plain evil. They’re a gang of legal thieves essentially. I used to even work for them as a level 2 tech support one summer.
Now they’re suggesting companies pay for “Quality of Service”. They gave an example that a VoIP provider who wanted the same quality of service as their own VoIP offerings would have to pay them money. Do they propose two Italians in nice suits come knock on the door and get a brown paperbag of money? This would essentially be extortion, there’s no other word for it. Another example they gave was if Yahoo wanted to pay them so that Yahoo would ALWAYS be faster then Google. Completely ridiculous! What would they do if Yahoo was being DoSed? Just DoS Google?
The justification that they gave that this was ok was that Google gets paid to put the highest bidders results on top of the search list. Which in fact is not true, Google gets paid for the clearly marked advertisements on the right hand side.
The article at Washington Post Article about BellSouth extortion scheme
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