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.”

Could open source tools make Facebook the next AOL? – Computerworld.

This is along the same lines of my previous post about the Tweeting CNN editor, but zooms out for a much broader view of the impact of online social networks on our moral frameworks. I have to dig deeper on this one, so I can’t comment here, but hopefully someone finds it interesting.