14 DAY TRIAL // I would like to congratulate the Internet Service Provider Rogers for the courage it displayed and for the idiocy, I dare say, of going against Google in something as principial as the competitors' logo on the homepage. I'm not sure that this is something I should be thinking about, but it seems to me that Google is outgrowing its blanket in the impossibly large and oligarchic, almost monopolistic meaning of the expression. Nothing can really stop Google now, be it lawsuit, be it natural cataclysm. It would just keep growing and growing and take each blow like it was a gush of wind rummaging through its hair. But, enough about that, it almost sounds like a conspiracy theory and I'm not the type.
The picture on the left shows exactly how Google Canada's homepage was "tarnished" by Rogers, the wonder ISP, with Yahoo's logo just because it can. It is a warning and a signal of danger drawn towards ISP's spying on and modifying web traffic.
Not a good place to be in, that of Rogers' boss shoes, but hey, they did draw this onto them. Google would do well to sue, this is like an offense that the Mafia families would throw in each others' faces just to start a war. Just that Yahoo had nothing to do with it (or did it?) and the middleman would get what's really coming to him deservedly. I'm thinking public execution in the form of humiliation with a big press conference, in which Rogers CEO would apologize and look sorry?
The original poster of the photo, Lauren Weinstein, has a question ready for you: "Will Web service providers such as Google and many others, who have spent vast resources in both talent and treasure creating and maintaining their services' appearances and quality, be willing to stand still while any ISP intercepts and modifies their traffic in such a manner?" What do you think?