Google and Verizon in Talks on Selling Internet Priority

Re:Google and Verizon in Talks on Selling Internet Priority by gojomo on Wednesday August 04, 2010 @11:27PM (#1577092)

Don't panic!

The internet is not a delicate little flower needing careful tending by wise regulators. It is grey goo.

Any traffic tiering or preferencing schemes that are tried which don't feed overall capacity and delight users with new possibilities will be swept aside by new alternatives in a matter of 5-10 years.

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Re:Google and Verizon in Talks on Selling Internet Priority by endlessvoid94 on Thursday August 05, 2010 @12:11AM (#1577188)

I wish that was true. But don't forget who owns, operates, and maintains the actual cables. Telecoms.

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Re:Google and Verizon in Talks on Selling Internet Priority by gojomo on Thursday August 05, 2010 @01:03AM (#1577270)

Where we're going, we don't need cables.

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Re:Google and Verizon in Talks on Selling Internet Priority by rnfein on Thursday August 05, 2010 @12:19AM (#1577203)

If users don't believe their collective market power is strong enough, they should remember they are empowered in other ways too.

Elections in November, starting a net-neutral provider as competition, etc...

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Re:Google and Verizon in Talks on Selling Internet Priority by phaedrus on Thursday August 05, 2010 @12:11AM (#1577186)

Interesting - I never heard anyone equate the internet to an unstoppable self-replicating technology before - but by God I hope you're right.

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