The Wall Street Journal posted a pithy article about Google that made the front page of Monday’s edition. There’s also been a little back-and-forth in the blogosphere from the Wired blogs and Google’s Policy Blog (to be fair, it’s been more back than forth).

The article in the WSJ argues that Google’s not-so-new practice of using edge-servers—servers that are closer to dense user populations—as part of their content delivery network is an overture against their pro-net neutrality stance. According to Wired, these edge-servers are co-located at ISPs near their users (which would logically mean major urban centres), which improves the performance of Google’s sites (like YouTube). The WSJ contends that this faster access these edge-servers provide is a breach of net neutrality, as its only for Google content.

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