Articles by US Rep. Alan Grayson

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Verizon & Google Want to Kill the Open Internet — Media Mogul Confirms Their Bad Intentions
US Rep. Alan Grayson - AlterNet, 23 Aug 2010

“[Barry] Diller asserted that the Google-Verizon proposal “doesn’t preserve ‘net neutrality,’ full stop, or anything like it.” Asked if other media executives were staying quiet because they stand to gain from a less open Internet, he said simply, “Yes.” (New York Times, August 12, 2010). The Verizon-Google Net Neutrality Proposal begins by stating that “Google and Verizon have been working together to find ways to preserve the open Internet.” Well, that’s nice. Imagine what they would have come up with if they had been trying to kill off the open Internet.

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