Verizon the Troll
Verizon looks to insert a “toll bridge” type network on the internet. Not good. This guy seems a bit out of touch with how things work. I pay my ISP a monthly fee, and they pay whoever gives them their connection. I pay to have my web site hosted and my host also pays for their connection. Both ends seem covered to me.
A famous employee of Google argues for the people:
Vinton G. Cerf, a vice president and “chief Internet evangelist” at Google, said in an interview that his company is worried that if net neutrality protections are not enacted, the Internet’s freedom could be compromised, limiting consumer choice, economic growth, technological innovation and U.S. global competitiveness.“In the Internet world, both ends essentially pay for access to the Internet system, and so the providers of access get compensated by the users at each end,” said Cerf, who helped develop the Internet’s basic communications protocol. “My big concern is that suddenly access providers want to step in the middle and create a toll road to limit customers’ ability to get access to services of their choice even though they have paid for access to the network in the first place.”