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Remember when Google said it was not engaged in talks with Verizon? … Here’s a friendly reminder, folks: in the end, mega corporations will always be about one thing and one thing only: screwing you any way they can

www.publicknowledge.org -- Late last week, news broke that a traffic management agreement had been reached between Google and Verizon. This agreement would, among other things, allow Verizon to prioritize applications and content at whim over its mobile broadband network. In the absence of clear FCC authority, we can expect to see more deals like this in the near term. The largest telephone and cable companies and the largest web companies will carve up the Internet as they see fit, deciding who gets access to the Internet’s fast lane while the rest of us are stuck in the slow lane.