For telecommunications companies to take what used to be public tubes, and twist them into private corporate piggy banks, You need traitorous turncoats like Henry Waxman to sell us out. I would say, fuck you Waxman, but Indeed, he’s already fucked us all.

There was a time not long ago when it was easy to believe that Google was a different kind of company — one that considered the public good as well as the bottom line in making decisions. My, how a week changes things.

Now how do they expect us to believe that giving Youtube the fast lane, would not affect any of youtube competitors? Indeed, the Google/Verizon Policty document is hogwash.

Net neutrality is at risk with the new likely deal between Verizon & Google. Obama’s strong stand during the campaign on this issue buckling. Now’s the time to act to prevent further erosion on this issue.

Audio clip from conference call with Google and Verizon CEO’s, speaking about new “specialized networks” for companies to deliver content.

The world’s biggest media companies want to define how people will get content over the Internet. Money talks; independent content creators: take a walk. A mega-deal is reportedly in the works in which Verizon will favor Internet content from Google because Google has the spare cash to pay for preferred access. And this is being touted as the model for how content providers and Internet service providers will do business. We have seen the future, and it is exactly like the past.

The captains of industry are laying Americans off by the millions, but they do)n’t want their vctims to have access to affordable healthcare. (And more Americans die each month for lack of health insurance as dies on 9/11.