By Mike Musgrove
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, October 23, 2009
Google chief executive Eric Schmidt favors net neutrality, but only to a point: While the tech player wants to make sure that telecommunications giants don’t steer Internet traffic in a way that would favor some devices or services over others, he also believes that it would be a terrible idea for the government to involve itself as a regulator of the broader Internet.
“It is possible for the government to screw the Internet up, big-time,” he said. Google is strong enough as a company to weather any possible outcome on the issue, he said. But what he worries about “is the next start-up.”
Thursday marked a milestone in the debate over net neutrality, as the Federal Communications Commission voted to move forward on how the government will police access to the Internet…
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