[ergo98]

>Google is telling the FCC how they might want to do things precisely because they're just one random company that couldn't possibly influence anything?

Just as Verizon tells them how they want to do things. As does Microsoft, and Apple, and every other big tech company.

You grossly overstate Google's significance.

[gizmomagico]

Google is not there to "get a discussion going" - it's there to guide things towards its own interests, just like Verizon et al.

The point here is that Google is just another huge, evil(1) company among others like it, and that all its recent talk about openness is just PR-bullshit.

(1) Whatever your definition may be.