[opendtv] Re: Google blocks YouTube on Amazon devices in escalating feud
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2017 03:05:36 +0000
Monty Solomon posted:
Google blocks YouTube on Amazon devices in escalating feud
Google is pulling its popular YouTube video service from Amazon's Fire
TV and Echo Show devices in an escalating feud that has caught
consumers in the crossfire.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/google-blocks-youtube-on-amazon-devices-in-escalating-feud/2017/12/05/1598b062-da08-11e7-a241-0848315642d0_story.html
No doubt, this will confuse the heck out of our FCC Chairman. And yet, it has
zero to do with net neutrality, zero to do with the FCC. Rather, it is the kind
of effect anyone should EXPECT, from any devices designed to promote collusion
and under-the-table deals. If the Amazon Fire has to go, hat in hand, begging
for special favors from Google, to supply YouTube videos with the Amazon Fire
proprietary streaming protocols, you'd have to be an idiot not to see such
problems coming.
As far as the FCC SHOULD BE concerned, this is just as irrelevant as if our
local Giant Food supermarket gets in a spat with Heinz. It's not a problem.
There are other food stores, and there are other brands of condiments, just as
there are other ways to stream video.
ON THE OTHER HAND, the same cannot be said if your ISP behaves this way. It is
incomprehensible to me that the Chairman of the FCC cannot figure this out,
preferring instead to bullsh*t the ignorant with his distraction tactics.
Courts, do the right thing.
Bert
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