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Google Denying NY Times Story On Net Neutrality. Keep The Pressure On!

2010 August 5
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by Mark Lipsky

Google is now denying today’s New York Times story about an evil deal between Google and Verizon that appeared to be looming just over the horizon. The New York Times generally doesn’t just make shit up though, so you have to believe that there’s more than a kernel of truth there – and that the subsequent firestorm of protest by proponents of Net Neutrality is causing Google to rethink. Awesome. That’s what doing, rather than complaining, can accomplish.

Do something right now in the name of Net Neutrality and a free internet. This is a painless but effective, 45 second way to take a stand. Please add your voice to the call for a free internet. If Net Neutrality is compromised even a little, all independent voices will suffer.

Don’t let that happen.

Light this fire for Net Neutrality!

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  • http://MagnumFarceMovie.com Ken Mora

    Speaking as an Independent Filmmaker who conducts a lot of business, data exchange, & networking online, I heartily oppose any attempt to quash Net Neutrality. Thank you, and everyone who raised an immediate response to the NY Times article.

    However, the forces that want to profit for the de-democritizing of the Internet will not rest, and neither should we.

  • http://MagnumFarceMovie.com Ken Mora

    Speaking as an Independent Filmmaker who conducts a lot of business, data exchange, & networking online, I heartily oppose any attempt to quash Net Neutrality. Thank you, and everyone who raised an immediate response to the NY Times article.

    However, the forces that want to profit for the de-democritizing of the Internet will not rest, and neither should we.

  • Eric Rehm

    However, you should read EFF’s scorecard on Google’s proposal. While EFF decries the exclusion of wireless services from neutrality rules (except tranparency), EFF lauds the limits the Google proposal places on FCC jurisdiction to combat so-called “regulatory capture” (where FCC operates in the interests of the regulated rather than the public.)

    So, I am not conviced the Google proposal is “all evil”, just part evil.

    https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/08/google-verizon-netneutrality

  • Eric Rehm

    However, you should read EFF’s scorecard on Google’s proposal. While EFF decries the exclusion of wireless services from neutrality rules (except tranparency), EFF lauds the limits the Google proposal places on FCC jurisdiction to combat so-called “regulatory capture” (where FCC operates in the interests of the regulated rather than the public.)

    So, I am not conviced the Google proposal is “all evil”, just part evil.

    https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/08/google-verizon-netneutrality