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“As expected, the terms would focus on wired controls but would sacrifice fairness in wireless to reach the goal,” Electronista reports. “The FCC would be the only official body and would have authority to ban both blocking or throttling legal traffic as well as limit prioritization of certain content, but only on wired networks. Both wired and wireless networks would have a requirement for transparency, which would require any carrier to clearly disclose how it shapes traffic and other limits on the network. Wired services could have special services such as IPTV, but these would have to be clearly separated from general Internet access so they aren’t used as forms of cheating the neutrality rules, the two companies said.”
Electronista reports, “Google’s motivations behind the deal have already been called into question. The search firm is heavily dependent on Verizon for Android phone sales and would stand to lose significant market share and mobile ad revenue if its carrier partner backed away.
Read more in the full article here.
Read “A joint policy proposal for an open Internet” by Alan Davidson, Google director of public policy and Tom Tauke, Verizon executive vice president of public affairs, policy, and communications here.
Time to take down Verizon. Where’s Sen. Rockafeller. He’s got time on his hands doesn’t he?
With a simple click and the selection of a drop-down, Yahoo just became my official search engine.
Once they get their filthy little claws in they will not let go. You are a fool if you think otherwise. And if you do not do your part to fight this you will be completely responsible for the devastation to equality and the freedom of information that will absolutely follow. George Bush said “No new taxes.” Hitler promised that he would not invade the rest of Czechoslovakia. And the Greeks brought a big goddamned wooden horse to the Trojans. This the beginning of the end of times, people. Mark my words. You and every future generation will regret any inaction in this matter. If you do nothing, and by doing so willingly hand the keys to the kingdom over to these monsters, you are selling your very lives and the lives of all future generations over to them. And you will have no right to cry for mercy when it happens. At all.
Believe me… they will not stop once they get started.
DO YOUR PART !!! STOP USING GOOGLE IMMEDIATELY !!!
You have been warned.
fsck Google…
fsck Verizon…
fsck the FCC…
FSCK Genachowski!!!!! in the back door!!
that jerk needs to be fired, now!!!!!!
MaWo: ‘form’. As in, “FCC’s is bad”.
I have no words for this other than, “@#$%!”
NHL
With a simple click and the selection of a drop-down, Yahoo just became my official search engine
how do I change from google to yahoo?
This is unbelievable! This bunch of “Do No Evil” predators have decided to throttle the internet for everyone, unless it’s with Verizon and Wireless access. After all, who owns the largest wireless network in the U.S.? Verizon.
What a bunch of crap! Who the hell does Google think it is? What the hell happened to my favorite company? The company that wanted an open internet, free from throttling?
My mistrust of this company started with the new Gphone, which for some uncanny reason became an iPhone clone within a year after its release. What happened to the keyboard?
Then came the China fiasco. Sergei expounding on his parents and other Russians barely avoiding the Gulag in Russia and why Google was withdrawing from China on human rights issues. Then what? Suddenly they’re back when the stock drops 100 points on a lack of earnings potential.
Then there is the accidental eavesdropping on open wireless access points by the picture taking vehicles. Who believes that Google came forward on their own volition? Or was it a whistle blower or someone else who would have come forward?
Now this! They are trying to get the FCC to go along with some hare-brained scheme that will benefit them and Verizon only! If the FCC cannot see past this one, then there is no freaking justice. Of course the cable companies will go along with this, it helps them.
I cannot wait for the lawyers at EFF to stomp all over this. Today, I literally dumped all of my Google stock and options. I am in the process of disengaging myself from their services, including Gmail, Documents and all web services. My company will discontinue Google’s web offerings at the end of the quarter. We have had enough! What we are seeing is a company that is willing to sell its soul to make money. If they do this with net neutrality what will they do with my personal information that they have been collecting?
All of this time, I thought it was Microsoft who were the enemy. As of today, I now know who the bitch on the lawn really is. “Do no evil” my ass.
R.
I’m a parent. I have 3 kids. This is akin to 2 of them getting together and laying out a framework on how to parent them.
This whole thing reeks. I expect this sort of thing from Verizon, but I am extremely disappointed in Google. Not surprised by Google but extremely disappointed.
I cannot even stomach to think about or even listen to either of these two companies. It is disgusting on how transparent it is that this whole concept is concocted in such a way that the biggest benefactors are the two companies who drafted this “compromise.”
“F” Verizon!
“F” Google!
(The “F” may be substituted for “fail” but it certainly not what the author intended.)
It just gets F7kng worse with this company. Google this tasty morsel from today’s WSJ:
“Google Agonizes on Privacy as Ad World Vaults Ahead”
This, taken from a confidential Google document termed “Google Vision Statement”:
“Google can build a data exchange/trading platform allowing individual data owners to transact with others directly, or openly sell their data to any bidders…”
….This from the “Don’t be evil” gurus.
Yeah Right.
It’s only evil when it doesn’t benefit you. This is capitalism. this is the corporation governing the common man. The government – whol is suppose to represent us – no longer does. It represents big interest. I used to laugh at movies like Rollerball and Soilent Green. I don’t anymore.
Google your going to get yours …….. And verizon I will cancel my contract very soon.
@zmarc
“Without net nutrality guarantees, there’s no reason Comcast can’t slow, limit, or eliminate certain internet traffic to your computer. That’s scary.”
Comcast started limiting the pipe to 75g per month of download here in MN.
I wonder what Leo Laporte, the so-called Users’ Advocate will think about this evil scheme. For the past few episodes of his podcast programs, he has been flogging the Antena-gate horse to death by continuously repeating the same old tired tale about how evil Apple and Facebook are, and how harmless Google is. He promised that it would the last time he would flagellate Apple on the altar of Google’s goodness but he just couldn’t stop but carry on with the same complaint episode after episode. Just show how a pimp and whore some people can become.
…ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS. …
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Google has finally turned EVIL.
GOOGLE EVIL
VERIZON EVIL