The only thing proponents of Net neutrality regulation and opponents of online piracy legislation appear to have in common is the boy-crying-wolf “censorship” rhetoric of FreePress’ Save The Internet activists.

See my Forbes Tech Capitalist post here, “SOPA Opponents’ Bogus Net Neutrality Comparisons.”

 

Pending anti-piracy legislation (Senate: PROTECT IP, House: SOPA) is very likely to become law in 2012.

See my Forbes Tech Capitalist post to learn why, and why it’s important.

Given that Apple and Google are the #1 and #2 most valuable brands in the world and that Google has invaded all of Apple’s markets in the last few years as a new competitor, it is illuminating and instructive to compare and contrast the radically different visions, values, and standards, of Apple’s former leader Steve Jobs and Google’s current CEO Larry Page.

See my Forbes Tech Capitalist post: “Jobs’ Apple Standard vs. Page’s Google Standard” here.

 

See my Forbes Tech Capitalist post “The Next Leg of Wireless Growth? here.

See my Forbes postGoogle 21st Century Robber Baron” which briefly tells the story of Google’s Robber Baron rap sheet, in advance of Google’s Wednesday Senate antitrust hearing.

The post is documented with 79 links to the supporting evidence.

The post also explains why Google’s Board of Directors have been AWOL while all this scofflaw behavior has been going on.

 

 

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