Well, if this story is correct, we may be facing a tiered Internet. The deal struck between Google and Verizon is “one massive loophole that sets the stage for the corporate takeover of the Internet,” wrote Craig Allen in the Huffington Post. Under this proposal, forget net neutrality on wireless networks, which means websites (and blogs) can be blocked . If you want priority treatment – you may have to pay for it.
“The deal would allow ISPs to effectively split the Internet into “two pipes” — one of which would be reserved for “managed services,” a pay-for-play platform for content and applications, wrote Allen. “This is the proverbial toll road on the information superhighway, a fast lane reserved for the select few, while the rest of us are stuck on the cyber-equivalent of a winding dirt road.”
It’s bad enough that corporations rule every facet of ours lives. But if this proposal is approved, corporations will now decide who will see what and when on the Internet.Who will bother dropping by your website or blog is it takes 30 minutes to get there?
We signed this petition to the FCC to save Internet neutrality.
Disgusted, I will certainly sign it.
You're right…once greed sets in, people seem to lose their idealism and virtue. Why can't people see that? There should be punishments against greed to discourage it from happening.
Of course corporations want to control information. Its amazing that the Internet has been allowed to operate for so long without restrictions.
wv: impurc (impure, see?) ha!
It's alarming, for sure.
what a mess this would be!!! i've already signed the petition and am sending it to everyone i know! thanks SO MUCH for alerting us – i had no idea!
Who knows if a petition will make any difference. But it's worth a try. In the early days of google, when their mantra was do no evil, I thought, Wow, for real? That's a corporate mantra? But then greed sets in. Everything shifts.
I'm on my way to sign the petition. You are so right about corporate greed. There is just no end.
I shared the story on facebook earlier today. I really don't want this to happen. 🙁
Thanks, DJan. I'm with you 100%. What happened to google's edict, Do no evil?
wv on this one: liess
lies!
I just signed the petition. This cannot happen!!