A piece from Bill Snyder on Infoworld describes Verizon's plan to turn the internet into cable TV. That's right, Verizon is fighting in court to end the Federal Communications Commission's policy of Net neutrality, which would begin the process of changing the economic model of the Web into a pay per view model.Right now, you pay your internet provider and then go wherever you want. Verizon and its allies want to charge websites to carry their content to your connected device. You then pay by the bit.
Even if they lose this case, we all know they won't stop until they get what they want and that's the day I'll sign off the internet.
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