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Google, Verison, Net Neutrality, and YOU
tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2010-08-07:1991841:Topic:1033414
2010-08-07T02:52:08.997Z
ZenDog
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What follows is an article from the New York Times - pay close attention now, or pay later . . .<div style="margin:30px"><h3>Google and Verizon Near Deal on Web Pay Tiers</h3>
By EDWARD WYATT<br></br>
Published: August 4, 2010</div>
<div style="margin:30px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">WASHINGTON — …</span></div>
What follows is an article from the New York Times - pay close attention now, or pay later . . .<div style="margin:30px"><h3>Google and Verizon Near Deal on Web Pay Tiers</h3>
By EDWARD WYATT<br/>
Published: August 4, 2010</div>
<div style="margin:30px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">WASHINGTON — <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/google_inc/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More information about Google Inc" class="meta-org" style="color: rgb(0, 66, 118); text-decoration: underline;">Google</a> and <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/verizon_communications_inc/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More information about Verizon Communications" class="meta-org" style="color: rgb(0, 66, 118); text-decoration: underline;">Verizon</a>, 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.</span></div>
<div style="margin:30px"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">The charges could be paid by companies, like <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/youtube/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More news about YouTube." class="meta-org" style="color: rgb(0, 66, 118); text-decoration: underline;">YouTube</a>, 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.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">Such an agreement could overthrow a once-sacred tenet of Internet policy known as <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/subjects/n/net_neutrality/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="More articles about Net Neutrality." class="meta-classifier" style="color: rgb(0, 66, 118); text-decoration: underline;">net neutrality</a>, 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.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">Any agreement between Verizon and Google could also upend the efforts of the <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/f/federal_communications_commission/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about the Federal Communications Commission." class="meta-org" style="color: rgb(0, 66, 118); text-decoration: underline;">Federal Communications Commission</a> to assert its authority over broadband service, which was severely restricted by a federal appeals court decision in April.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">People close to the negotiations who were not authorized to speak publicly about them said an agreement could be reached as soon as next week. If completed, Google, whose Android operating system powers many Verizon wireless phones, would agree not to challenge Verizon’s ability to manage its broadband Internet network as it pleased.</span></p>
<div style="text-align:right"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/05/technology/05secret.html?_r=1">Story Continues here</a></b></div>
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<div><b>REVOLT I SAY!</b></div>
Finally, I have a plan . . .
tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2009-07-30:1991841:Topic:182310
2009-07-30T12:00:48.865Z
ZenDog
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Ya-yeah. So I think I have it. I do, I have it. It would be a plan, and so now you may call me <i>Stan</i>. Yeah-ya. You can call me Stan, and this is my plan . . .<br />
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But first, a little history . . .<br />
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Yeah-ya.<br />
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Did you know that organized crime was essential to the efforts of the resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War Two? It's true. They were. The only problem is that none of them lived, so they couldn't brag about it. Ha-ha! That's almost true. There might have been one or two of…
Ya-yeah. So I think I have it. I do, I have it. It would be a plan, and so now you may call me <i>Stan</i>. Yeah-ya. You can call me Stan, and this is my plan . . .<br />
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But first, a little history . . .<br />
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Yeah-ya.<br />
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Did you know that organized crime was essential to the efforts of the resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War Two? It's true. They were. The only problem is that none of them lived, so they couldn't brag about it. Ha-ha! That's almost true. There might have been one or two of them who survived, but it seems after all of that they were in no mood to brag . . .<br />
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Seriously though, there were survivors. Not many. No. Not very many.<br />
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And half way around the world Lucky Luciano sat in prison in the United States, encouraging the people from <i>the neighborhood</i> to help out creating maps and contact lists for the invasion of Sicily.<br />
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I guess it just goes to show that within the <i>social construct</i> even thugs have their place. Ya-ya! Hee! Oboy . . . I bet you're thinking, <i>he's in trouble now . . .</i><br />
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but wait. Ya-yeah. Just wait. You haven't heard the plan yet.<br />
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Ready?<br />
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It's simple really. Any truly brilliant plan rests on the elegance of simplicity, doesn't it? Sure it does . . .<br />
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So here's the idea . . .<br />
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I'll go down on Main Street, set myself on fire, while the kids of Lucky raid the <i>Ivory Tower</i> . . . haa-ha! eeYeah . . . Ivory tower . . .<br />
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Yeah-ya. I figure while I keep everyone busy <i>screaming my life away</i> down on Main Street, the boyz can do their thing and steal all the evidence and send it to the media. What evidence? you ask . . . Why, evidence of massive human rights violations and crimes against humanity. Sure. Haven't you heard? They're tinkering with systems of belief, distorting perceptions of reality, and generally practicing witchcraft . . .<br />
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You hadn't heard?<br />
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And if the boyz renig on the deal, then I'll just turn into a poltergeist and haunt them for eternity . . .<br />
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Ya-yeah. I'll spend eternity <i>throwing things . . .<br />
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in an empty house . . .</i><br />
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© D. Winter<br />
July 3o, 2009<br />
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