From the Internet Fight! dept.:
A Federal Communications Commissioner has condemned the Verizon-Google take on net neutrality. Michael Copps ...said the public should not stand for deals “that exchange Internet freedom for bloated profits.”

Copps was speaking at a public hearing in Albuquerque titled “The Future Of The Intenet.” Among the topics he addressed was a proposal by Google and Verizon to settle the ongoing debate about net neutrality.

...The world envisioned by the Verizon-Google Gaggle was one built of private Internets that would vastly diminish the centrality of the Internet that you and I know. They want a tiered Internet. “Managed services” is what they call this. “Gated communities for the Affluent” is what I call them.