Web Plan Is Dividing Companies

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

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.