Net Neutrality to be violated by Verizon.

It would be interesting if CEO Ivan G. Seidenberg gets wind of any of our comments. However, I am only a Verizon customer

of not much worth to him. Yet, I am distressed to learn that Verizon and Google are about to violate the principle of Net Neutrality.

If they do enact a multi-tiered system, where the more you pay, the better access you have to the Internet, I my family will remove contact with Verizon.

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lasagna

Gotta go with somegirl on this one. I wrote a post on this topic elsewhere on this forum explaining Net Neutrality and what the discussions going on really meant (let's just say, as usual, the non-technical types doing some of the reporting on this topic in the press are once again engaging in "gotcha" journalism without getting all the facts straight).

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somegirl

Cite your source, please.

Justin46

@somegirl wrote:
Cite your source, please.

Here is one link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/05/technology/05secret.html?hpw

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somegirl

I'm much more in favor of official statements:

http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2010/08/joint-policy-proposal-for-open-internet.html

An excerpt, for you:

Importantly, this new nondiscrimination principle includes a presumption against prioritization of Internet traffic - including paid prioritization. So, in addition to not blocking or degrading of Internet content and applications, wireline broadband providers also could not favor particular Internet traffic over other traffic.

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