Free Press, Others Hold Rally to Protest Google-Verizon Deal

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Source: PCMag



MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Free Press, ColorofChange.org, and other consumer groups held a rally at Google headquarters on Friday, protesting the company's proposed net neutrality plan with Verizon.

The proposal, protesters claimed, will create a two- or multi-tier Internet, which would favor established media giants, freezing out startups and the average consumer.

The protest, which attracted between 30 and 50 people, was originally organized by Free Press, one of the consumer groups that has protested the relationship between the two companies.

Protesters submitted a list of what organizers said was 300,000 signatures of people opposed to the proposed arrangement, which would allow Google and Verizon the freedom to add new services on the Internet that would not be constrained by network neutrality policies. The wireless industry would also be exempt from net neutrality, a term used to describe a world in which every Internet service and Web site is given equal weight and equal priority over the others.

Google public-relations representatives appeared and said they would accept the signatures inside Googles headquarters, which they later did. Google is also accepting comments on the proposal on its public policy blog.



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1. google is our corporate enemy nt

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2. Sure but....which mega corporations are allies of the people?