Web Plan Is Dividing Companies

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In an emerging battle over regulating Internet access, companies are taking sides.

Facebook, one of the companies that has flourished on the open Internet, indicated Wednesday that it did not support a proposal by Google and Verizon that critics say could let providers of Internet access chip away at that openness.

Meanwhile an executive of AT&T, one of the companies that stands to profit from looser regulations, called the proposal a “reasonable framework.”

Most media companies have stayed mute on the subject, but in an interview this week, the media mogul Barry Diller called the proposal a sham.

And outside of technology circles, most people have not yet figured out what is at stake.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/technology/12net.html?th&emc=th

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1. Here's EFF's response from a couple of days ago.

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/08/google-verizon-netneutrality


The troubling parts according to them:

> The definition of “reasonable network management” needs to be clarified and refined.

> The cutout for “additional online services” is also very disturbing.