You are here The "Open Net Coalition" -- "ItsOurNet" Part II -- They're back!
Submitted by Scott Cleland on Mon, 2007-04-30 18:40
The ItsOurNet coalition is relaunching under a new name the "Open Internet Coalition" in May according to Todays' National Journal's Tech Daily .
I must say I am sad to see the ItsOurNet name fall by the wayside, it was a glorious pinata of a concept.
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I needled ItsOurNet when they announced their name that it was a tad bit greedy for the online giants to claim in their name that they "owned" the Internet.
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I suggested it would have been a little wiser and fit with their "democratic" message to have called it "ItsEveryonesNet" or "ItsEverybodysNet".
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But no, they apparently are calling it the "Open Net coalition" or "OpenNetCoalition.com."
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Not bad but for grins, quickly checkout an Internet artifact before they pull it down: opennetcoalition.org.
It also will be interesting to see if they have retooled the substance of their message and if they will abandon Moveon.org and the Dorgan-Snowe bill to try and appear more reasonable and practical.
Reading between the lines of the article it seems Moveon is "on" the defensive so to speak.
lastly it will be interesting to see if:
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IAC Ask.com is still part of the Google gang after running ads in the UK to "Stop the Information Monopoly" because Google has 75% share in the UK.
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eBay is still on hand holding terms with Google after Google has directly assaulted its Pay "Pal" with a free checkout offering.
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What may be most amusing of all is to see how close Google's online competitors choose to cuddle the Google competitive porcupine.
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