A story in today’s Wall Street Journal about Pres.-elect Barack Obama and Google double crossing advocates for an open Internet has the blogosphere boiling. And it’s caused enough of a stir that Google responded in it’s patented polite “do no evil” style that the Journal’s got it wrong. Really wrong.
It’s not health care or the economy. It’s not even the war in Iraq. The most crucial issue facing the nation is the ability to get unimpeded information from the sources people choose over the Internet, according to some online journalists and activists.
Warlocks, cybernetic super-soldiers and card sharks are forming an unlikely alliance against a formidable enemy — Internet service providers that want to charge certain customers higher monthly fees for online access.
Democratic convention committee names Level 3 and AT&T as service providers.
Telecoms and Internet users are girding for new battles over net neutrality rules.
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