The Google Dialogues: Search Neutrality

Transparency is great; backseat regulation in the name of fairness, not so much…

Sometimes I feel that the primary differences between Socratic Dialogues and Strawman Arguments are that:

a) the former are apparently respectable, but the latter are fallacious, and…

b) everyone since 399BC is not Socrates

I too am not Socrates – instead I am an unfair and imbalanced security geek who is strongly in favour of privacy, respects transparency and is vehemently against censorship, a juxtaposition which occasionally puts me into slight conflict with some of my likewise do-gooding peers.

A case in point is when I encounter organisations which are bent upon fixing Google, e.g.: a discussion coming up at PICTFOR, the Parliamentary Internet Communications and Technology Forum, at the blog for which the following was posted:

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