How the Google/Verizon proposal could kill the internet in 5 years

[Swede]

Earlier this week Google and Verizon pledged to uphold a set of network principles that could transform the internet into a husk of its former self. Let's look down the barrel of the Googlezon* future.

Keep in mind that the two-page Googlezon proposal, which you can read here, isn't law, though both companies have requested that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) turn it into a formal regulation. Even if it isn't law, though, Googlezon has stated it will follow the proposal's principles. And mostly those principles are harbingers of a dystopian media future.

http://io9.com/5610328/how-the-googleverizon-proposal-could-kill-the-internet-in-5-years?skyline=true&s=i

[spin]

1. Politicians and the big corporations fear that which they don't control ...

therefore they will eventually rule the internet. Why give the serfs any power?