Adam Green, Co-founder, Progressive Change Campaign Committee: Google Goes "Evil"

[onehandle]

We know why Verizon did it. Verizon is a decrepit old company that made massive investments in old landline technology and is coming face-to-face with market irrelevance. In a properly functioning marketplace, Verizon would soon crumble and die and be replaced by modern-day innovators. The only way for them to stay in business is to block innovation and to put tollbooths on the Internet that are in nobody's interest but Verizon's and other decrepit companies like AT&T.

There is no reason in the world for Google, which has made smart investments in the future, to find common ground with Verizon on the issue of Internet openness. None. Zero. Zilch. Today's deal was unneeded, uncalled for, and incompatible with Google's "don't be evil" mantra.

Google's decision to cut a deal with Verizon wreaks of either impatience or fear. Either Google wasn't willing to wait for the Verizons of the world to crumble and die -- and therefore moved it's own business development timeline up 5 or 10 years at the expense of the entire American public. Or, Google feared doing the dirty work that comes with being a leader -- despite launching a "Google Fiber for Communities" program that competes head-to-head with the decrepit incumbents, Google feared actually having to fulfil their potential to defeat the bad guys.

So, they cut a deal with the bad guys. And they're now asking the public to accept two Internet experiences -- a great experience for the old Internet that will soon cease to exist, and an experience filled with discrimination and lack of a level playing field for the entire future of the Internet.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-green/breaking-google-goes-evil_b_676021.html

[Warren DeMontague]

1. Adam Green should know that spell check is no substitute for a solid knowledge of English.

It doesn't "wreak" of impatience or fear, it reeks of it.

Carry on.

[leftofcool]

2. Not entirely incorrect

wreaks........to bring about or cause reeks.......smells of Could bring about fear or impatience but the sentence structure suggests that either word works. Personally, I say the whole thing smells.

[Warren DeMontague]

3. Nah, I don't see how "wreaks"-- as in, "wreaks havoc"-- works in that sentence.

And that's not to dismiss the content of the article, but I did find it distracting.

I think net neutrality is a complex, confusing, important issue, and sadly most of the information we seem to get is lean on real-world implications or details.

[leftofcool]

4. You are correct. I missed the word "of"

He should have just said 'causes' fear and impatience. I too would like more details and implications.