Critics say Google-Verizon deal threatens net neutrality

Tue, 08/10/2010 - 14:08
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Google and Verizon have announced their plan for net neutrality. In a joint statement, the corporations say they’re against charging different rates for service online. But progressive groups and open-internet supporters are calling it the end of a democratic Internet as we know it. Tanya Snyder reports.

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I really don’t find it good hearing about this Google-Verizon deal marks beginning of the end for net neutrality. Goggle must end this and take a back off on the deal. In this deal of net neutrality, everyone will have the same level of Internet access. Consumers now will soon see a new, tiered system, which, like cable television, imposes higher costs for premium levels of service. In today’s ways of searching the Internet anybody can have an access its is an information highway where anybody has equal access. But the phone and cable monopolies, who control almost all Internet access, want the power to choose who gets access to high-speed lanes and whose content gets seen first and fastest. It will result to a two-tiered system and block the on-ramps for those who can't pay.

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