“ The court decision said the F.C.C. lacked the authority to require that an Internet service provider refrain from blocking or slowing down some content or applications, or giving favor to others. The F.C.C. has since sought another way in which to enforce the concept of net neutrality. But its proposals have been greeted with much objection in Congress and among Internet service providers, cable companies and some Internet content producers.
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The prospect of a Google-Verizon agreement infuriates many consumer advocates, who feel that it would concentrate in a few corporations control of what to date has been a free and open Internet system in which consumers decide which companies are successful. ”
Google and Verizon Near Deal on Pay Tiers for Web - NYTimes.com
I will not like Google anymore if they do not step up to the plate on the side of net neutrality. This is a historic opportunity to not fuck up something infinitely precious.
