This is the end of the internet as we know it (re: Google & Verizon's 'tier' plans)

[Triana]

UNLESS you:

1. Call White House: 202-456-1111.
2. Call Congress: 202-224-3121.
3. Write FCC: http://j.mp/3yQkOU
4. Cancel Verizon internet: 888-553-1555

and FIGHT this crap!

You KNOW how they control and censor the "news" media. They WILL do the same to the internet. If the truth doesn't enhance their corprat bottom line, you won't be able to access it using their services on the internet! If that's OK with you - that the internet is controlled just like the TV and "news" networks are, then sit there and do nothing, otherwise, GET BUSY!


DAN RATHER lays it all out for you here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ckeqIoZz9c

[Poboy]

1. K&R

[dipsydoodle]

2. The "tier" plans

Only refer to mobiles - correct ?

[Triana]

3. No - they apply to general 'web' access, as I understand it...

(Edit to add snip of article)

WASHINGTON — Google and Verizon, two leading players in Internet service and content, are nearing an agreement that could allow Verizon to speed some online content to Internet users more quickly if the content’s creators are willing to pay for the privilege.

The charges could be paid by companies, like YouTube, owned by Google, for example, to Verizon, one of the nation’s leading Internet service providers, to ensure that its content received priority as it made its way to consumers. The agreement could eventually lead to higher charges for Internet users.

Such an agreement could overthrow a once-sacred tenet of Internet policy known as net neutrality, in which no form of content is favored over another. In its place, consumers could soon see a new, tiered system, which, like cable television, imposes higher costs for premium levels of service.

Any agreement between Verizon and Google could also upend the efforts of the Federal Communications Commission to assert its authority over broadband service, which was severely restricted by a federal appeals
court decision in April.

MORE...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38571113/ns/technology_and_science-the_new_york_times/

[dipsydoodle]

5. This implies otherwise

Google, Verizon deny mobile pay tiers plan.

Google and Verizon Wireless on Thursday denied that they are looking to create pay tiers for websites on mobile phones.

"(NY Times) is wrong," Google said on its public policy Twitter feed. "We've not had any convos with VZN (Verizon) about paying for carriage of our traffic. We remain committed to an open Internet."

A New York Times report "is mistaken," David Fish, Verizon's executive director of media relations, wrote on the telecom giant's public policy blog, echoing Google. "It fundamentally misunderstands our purpose. As we said in our earlier FCC filing, our goal is an Internet policy framework that ensures openness and accountability and incorporates specific FCC authority, while maintaining investment and innovation." He added: "To suggest this is a business arrangement between our companies is entirely incorrect."

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3iab2d241f10a74f759cd6ee3251134bd6

If its just mobiles then I really couldn't give a shit.

[Triana]

6. The M$NBC article gives the distinct impression that it's not just mobiles but...

...if it IS- then guess what's next?

They've (the ISPs - corprats) have been after net neutrality for a while now, as we know. Their greed knows no bounds. Let them get their hooks into control of internet access to truth and facts the same way they control other media and we're royally screwed - even moreso than now.

First, they came for the mobiles.....

[dipsydoodle]

7. Issues have already arisen over here of late

but not on the subject of content - on the issue of usage. Unlimited broadband contracts for mobiles are about to become a thing of the past with most new agreements subject to limits and pay thereafter.

Off topic - just noticed the number plate. :rofl:

[Uncle Joe]

4. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Triana.

[LynneSin]

8. Except Google maintains that they are not doing this

I can't speak for Verizon, but I've read several places where those who run Google maintain that they are not doing this.

[Triana]

10. I'd like to think they're not. I hope that's true. On the other hand...

....when they vehemently deny, you have to wonder. Remember 'we don't torture', or 'no we're not laying off, your job is fine, no worries' - ..... or "75% of the oil in the Gulf has evaporated..."

Pfft. I like Google. I want to trust them. But I don't.

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