Google and Verizon in Talks on Selling Internet Priority – NYTimes.com.
Google and Verizon are discussing an agreement where Google would pay for preferential treatment on Verizon’s network. I hope Google has some larger strategy that we aren’t seeing here, because this could set an extraordinarily bad precedent.
Gigi B. Sohn, president and a founder of Public Knowledge, makes a great point: “The fate of the Internet is too large a matter to be decided by negotiations involving two companies, even companies as big as Verizon and Google.”