Unfair and patently unlawful
Google, he continues, "exploits the dominance of its search engine and its gatekeeping power over other applications to give its preferred content greater visibility than its political opponents' content or to simply block its competitors' applications altogether."
"Deliberately narrowing the principles to award Google a special privilege to play by its own rules," said Quinn, Jr., "would be grossly unfair, patently unlawful, and a renunciation of President Obama's assurance that the Commission's Internet Policy Statement would be used to ‘ensure there's a level playing field' between competitors."
AT&T concludes that the FCC's "first fundamental step in leveling that playing field must be to unequivocally re-affirm in its proposed rulemaking that it will not exempt Google from whatever rules it ultimately adopts."
In other words, if the law gives Google Voice an unfair competitive advantage then that law, according to AT&T needs to be changed, even if Google seems dead set on paradoxically arguing that any attempt to remove its advantage will undermine competition.
Is Google in the right or is the firm in great danger of failing its mantra 'do no evil'? Is AT&T the pot calling the kettle black? Let us know your thoughts in the HEXUS.community discussion forums.
