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If you love the net , and use the net, as much as I do then it's time to get involved in keeping it free for all to use. Big business is about to carve it up with fee structures that will benefit them more than the public.

It's time to write/call your congress person to let them know how you feel before it's to late.

Net Neutrality is.......

Net Neutrality - The New York Times

Google and Verizon Near Deal on Web Pay Tiers.......

“The point of a network neutrality rule is to prevent big companies from dividing the Internet between them, said Gigi B. Sohn, president and a founder of Public Knowledge, a consumer advocacy group. “The fate of the Internet is too large a matter to be decided by negotiations involving two companies, even companies as big as Verizon and Google.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/05/techn ... .html?_r=1

Better still boycott google until they take the hint.

You might not need to though.

Correction: Google and Verizon - Corrections, News - The Independent

Yesterday's front page strapline, "Google closes in on a deal to buy preferential web access", was inaccurate. As the story made clear inside, Google said it had not had talks with Verizon about paying for carriage of Google traffic. However Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, said "We are trying to find solutions that bridge between the hard core 'net neturality or else' view and the historical telecom view of no such agreement." and explained that what Google meant by net neutrality was: "If you have one data type like video, you don't discriminate against one person's video in favour of another but it's OK to discriminate across different types".

This sounds like double talk to me.....

"Google meant by net neutrality was: "If you have one data type like video, you don't discriminate against one person's video in favour of another but it's OK to discriminate across different types".