Michael Copps blasts Google-Verizon plan, says it favors the rich

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http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/115161-copps-dont-trust-the-cable-companies-on-net-neutrality

A member of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) denounced the net neutrality framework proposed by Google and Verizon at a rally in Minneapolis Thursday, saying it would create “gated communities for the affluent” on the Internet.

FCC member Michael Copps said the plan proposed by the companies would protect the firms' interests at the expense of consumers.

“The Verizon-Google gaggle wants to build a world of private Internets that would vastly diminish the centrality of the Internet that you and I know," Copps said at the rally. "They want a tiered Internet.”

“'Managed services' is what they call this,” he added. “'Gated communities for the affluent' is what I call them."