John Battelle: SBC meet Google, Google this is SBC

This is being covered around the net but I like John's take. Short story: SBC didn't like an article, or series of articles written by David Lazarus, of the San Francisco Chronicle. So, SBC pulled all of its ad buys from the paper.

John Battelle:

"Why am I writing this? Because this is your new competitor, Google. Get to know them. As you offer free WiFi to all of San Francisco (and, one might argue, the rest of the country/world), and undermine AT&T/SBC's broadband business (and wheel Vint Cerf out to argue the net neutrality meme), hard ball players like SBC are going to go after you, and rest assured, their motto ain't "don't be evil."