Did Google Sell Us Out?

[maxximilian]

I have been reading up on the Google/Verizon guidelines issued today regarding net neutrality. I smell a rat...

On the surface it reads like Google supports neutrality, but once you dig into the details and loopholes, it looks like Google would go along with a creation of a "new internet" with no neutrality....while allowing the real internet to become a slum over the years. Further, no neutrality for wireless....which is the future of net communication.

Anyone else feel like Google has finally shown themselves to NOT be the net neutrality heros they played themselves to be?

Ars Technica asks, "How large a truck could you drive through these loopholes?"

http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/...government.ars

Wired says, "But if Google’s and Verizon’s proposal goes through, we really would have two internets — one free, where Google pledges to stay, another paid, where services such as 3D television, remote medical procedures, and bandwidth-intensive games appear — for a price."


http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/...nternets/all/1

I made a comic for the occasion:

[jdc2000]

Neither Google not Verizon has users best interests in mind. Legislation is needed, but that isn't likely to be any better.

[SuperSparks]

Here's a couple more very interesting opinions on what it's all about:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/op...eley.html?_r=1

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08...t_hypergiants/

[maxximilian]

If such a plan were to be adopted, I could easily see were Verizon, Time Warner, Comcast, etc would dump money into a new "special service" that would fall outside general internet guidelines. In the meantime, slowly decrease what they spend on the now low-rent district of wired general internet. Just like the suburbia boom in the second half of the last century. Investors and people all moved to the suburbs...and the cities started to rot away from lack of money.

Or maybe the millionaires and billionaires just don't want to have to share the same internet with the icky unwashed masses. I mean how dare my nudie pic downloading interfere with someone's stock portfolio report....LOL

Gated communities and walled gardens...just what we need on the net.

[Dude111]

With all that google has done in the last few months,I WOULD SAY THEY TEAMED UP WITH MICROSOFT!! (Taking privacy away,etc)

[SpywareDr]

(Taking privacy away,etc)

The latest from Google: "spy-in-the sky" drones
http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_ne...-c4c53e2a2a10#

Google News: google microdrone | uav
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&t...av&btnG=Search

[maxximilian]

Yeah...lets not forget how Google "accidentally" tapped every unprotected wi-fi network their vehicles passed by, too.

The "what....who....me?" from Google is getting tiresome....

[JPnyc]

I knew all that free software they were developing was too good to be true.

[maxximilian]

AT&T calls the plan....."reasonable".

No kidding....what a surprise....

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-0...asonable-.html

Any doubt that Sprint and T-mobile will be "reasonable" as well?