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Google & Verizon Propose Enforceable Net Neutrality

Google and Verizon held a press call today announcing a joint legislative framework proposal: internet network transparency and FCC enforcement with up to $2 million fines for network providers that engage in anti-competitive measures that hurt consumers.
The “ deal ” announced by Google and Verizon today definitely has health care in mind. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/healthcare/google-verizon-and-online-health-care/3909

Google, Verizon and online health care |

Google and Verizon have released a joint public policy proposal for the open Internet outlining how broadband providers can control how their users receive content.

Demystifying Google and Verizon’s Proposed Policy for the Open Internet

http://mashable.com/2010/08/09/google-verizon-policy-proposal/
http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/09/not-neutrality-did-google-verizon-just-stab-the-internet-in-the-heart/ Looks like Google and Verizon were, in fact, in talks over Net Neutrality after all, calling it a “thorny” issue, no less.

Not Neutrality: Did Google & Verizon Just Stab The Internet In The Heart?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-green/breaking-google-goes-evil_b_676021.html

Google Goes "Evil"

I just got off a media conference call with Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg. They announced a new policy recommendation that would kill the Internet as we know it, if implemented by FCC Chair Julius Genachowski and other policy makers. The Google/Verizon deal ( also posted online ) basically says:

Google-Verizon Pact: It Gets Worse

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-aaron/google-verizon-pact-it-ge_b_676194.html So Google and Verizon went public today with their "policy framework" -- better known as the pact to end the Internet as we know it . News of this deal broke this week, sparking a public outcry that's seen hundreds of thousands of Internet users calling on Google to live up to its "Don't Be Evil" pledge. But cut through the platitudes the two companies (Googizon, anyone?)
Last week, reports swirled that Verizon and Google had struck a deal to effectively end net neutrality. Today the companies offered their somewhat troubling suggestions for net neutrality policy, all the while pledging their commitment to the "open internet."

A Worrisome Proposal For Net Neutrality

http://gizmodo.com/5608422/google-and-verizon-issue-joint-proposal-for-net-neutrality-policy

A Private net neutrality

http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2010/08/google-verizon-unveil-net-neutrality-lite-to-government.ars After a week of speculation and denial , Google and Verizon unveiled their own version of net neutrality in the form of a "suggested legislative framework for consideration by lawmakers," as Google's public policy guy Alan Davidson and Verizon Vice President Thomas Tauke put it on Google's public policy blog .

Google Reveals Its Secret Internet Regulation Deal

http://gawker.com/5608614/google-reveals-its-secret-internet-regulation-deal Gawker is making some changes to its comment system that will require you to log in with a Facebook, Google, or Twitter account.
According to the proposal, Internet service providers would not be able to block producers of online content or offer them a paid “fast lane.” It says the should have the authority to stop or fine any rule-breakers.

A Vision for Managing Internet Traffic

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/10/technology/10net.html
Google and Verizon announced a joint proposal on Monday that would allow ISPs to offer premium content bundles over an unspecified global network — an unexpected gambit that would seem to call for separate and unequal internets. The two companies say the guidelines would ensure that no internet traffic of any kind is prioritized over any other kind (with the exception of viruses, spam and the like). “There should be a new, enforceable prohibition against discriminatory practices,” reads part of their proposal, posted on both Verizon’s and Google’s websites.

The Real Story: A Tale of Two Internets

Verizon, Google Announce Their Net Neutrality Solution

Last week was a messy (though entertaining) one on the network neutrality front, with the FCC canceling their largely closed-door meetings with carriers after criticism and reports that Google and Verizon were conducting private neutrality negotiations.
I am baffled by the Google-Verizon agreement on nonnet-nonneutrality.

Internet, schminternet

Why The Silence From Vint Cerf, Father Of Internet And GOOG Senior VP?

Allowing a handful of broadband carriers to determine what people see and do online would fundamentally undermine the features that have made the Internet such a success, and could permanently compromise the Internet as a platform for the free exchange of information, commerce, and ideas.

Is the Google-Verizon Plan a Setback for Net Neutrality? - TIME

As recently as last week, Google Inc. was generally known as the nation's largest and most vocal advocate of Net neutrality — the principle that any bit of data online should be allowed to travel just as fast as any other bit, allowing the high school kid in his bedroom to compete on the same viral playing field as a multinational corporation with a server farm.