Google is about to cut a deal with Verizon that would end the Internet as we know it

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Originally Posted by artwilliams

Sadly, America is run by corporations. Citizens are relegated to the status of consumers. There is no doubt in my mind that some day net neutrality will be lost.
If you read the article that I quoted it was speculated that Google might be making a deal to get priority for some types of traffic (and not priority for itself). Who knows.

It never existed. You already pay a differential of access as a publisher.

People concerned about applying the business model to the last mile that exists for all but the last mile already is a bit hysterical, IMO. No different than paying for a bigger connection (10, 100, 1000 mbs) or peer redundancy currently, our hosting bills may creep up a few cents per GB of transfer in order to get fastest pipeline access - in the extreme case where it becomes pay for pipeline access in the last mile. Since "net neutrality" as it is defined by those sponsoring such concepts does not exist from your server to a block from the home you are reaching, this whole controversy amounts to much ado about a few hundred yards.