Thursday, August 12, 2010

Google-Verizon Proposal Pumps Up the Net Neutrality Debate


Link to August 12 New York Times article, "Web Plan is Dividing Companies".

Excerpt:All of our life goes through this network, increasingly, and if you can’t reach your boss or get to your remotely stored work, or it’s so slow that you can’t get it done before you give up and you go to bed, that’s a problem,” said Allen S. Hammond IV, director of the Broadband Institute of California at Santa Clara University School of Law. “People need to understand that’s what we’re debating here.”

Decisions about net neutrality rest with the Federal Communications Commission and legislators, and full-throated lobbying campaigns are already under way on all sides. The Google-Verizon proposal was essentially an attempt to frame the debate
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Related links:
Verizon-Google Legislative Framework Proposal.
Electronic Frontier Foundation:  A Review of Verizon and Google's Net Neutrality Proposal.

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