I fucking hate Verizon and Google right now. Seriously. Maybe it’s because I’m having a shitty week, maybe it’s because I’ve been reading some of Warren Ellis’s writing, but I don’t think so.
The reason I hate Verizon and Google is that they (and to be fair: many other mega-crops) are attempting to totally screw up net neutrality. Verizon has always been attempting to kill net neutrality so they can make more money. That’s their M.O. But until recently Google has appeared, at least to me, to be committed to defending net neutrality. I say “until recently” because Google has now teamed up with the evil cunt wasp empire that is Verizon…
(Exhibit A) After much speculation, Verizon and Google on Monday unveiled a proposal for how they believe the issue of net neutrality should be handled. It backed an open Internet for the Web, but would exempt the wireless industry from any regulation at this time. It also provided an exemption for emerging technologies. [Source: PC Mag]
(Exhibit B) The other big news in today’s announcement was Google’s clear retreat on network neutrality when it comes to wireless networks. As Susan Crawford, professor at Cardozo Law School and an expert on all things Internet, explains: ”That’s a huge hole, given the growing popularity of wireless services and the recent suggestion by the Commission that we may not have a competitive wireless marketplace.” [Source: Salon.com]
I believe that John Gruber (of Daring Fireball fame) put it best when he said…
And who doesn’t agree that wireless is going to be to the coming decade what wired broadband was to the last?
Fucking A dude! The fight for net neutrality is MORE important in the wireless space than it is in the wired.
Yo Google. Change your shit up. Rather than saying “Do no evil,” you should be saying “Do know evil.”
You get what I’m saying you Machiavellian shit birds?
Tags: Daring Fireball, Evil, Evil Empire, Google, John Gruber, mobile web, Net Neutrality, verizon, Warren Ellis