"WASHINGTON — Google and Verizon, two leading players in Internet service and content, are nearing an agreement that could allow Verizon to speed some online content to Internet users more quickly if the content’s creators are willing to pay for the privilege."
If you look at the history of media in this country, it doesn't take a genius to see that it would be highly likely that the Internet eventually would be controlled by corporations. This is a significant new step in a direction that already had begun. The great chaotic days of the net are already over and now it will become, like everything else, a territory in which there are haves and have-nots. It was fun while it lasted, and I'll probably be dead before the worst happens. Old age has many advantages.
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