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Google-Verizon Deal: The End of The Internet as We Know It

Posted on August 5th, 2010 at 23:37 by Paul Jay in category: News

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For years, Internet advocates have warned of the doomsday scenario that will play out on Monday: Google and Verizon will announce a deal that the New York Times reports “could allow Verizon to speed some online content to Internet users more quickly if the content’s creators are willing to pay for the privilege.”


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  1. B.J. Herbison on August 6th, 2010 at 2:33:

    Other sources (including statements by Google and Verizon) give a dramatically different view of the deal.
    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-04/google-verizon-are-said-to-have-reached-deal-on-how-to-handle-web-traffic.html

Pentagon says WikiLeaks has not contacted them for help

Posted on August 5th, 2010 at 12:34 by Paul Jay in category: News

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WASHINGTON (AFP) – – The Pentagon on Wednesday said it had not received any request from the WikiLeaks group to help delete the names of Afghan informants in the 15,000 leaked documents still awaiting publication.

A WikiLeaks spokesman in Germany, Daniel Schmitt, earlier told US news website The Daily Beast that the group had sought Pentagon help to erase the names of civilians in the documents still to be released.


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  1. spaceman spiff on August 6th, 2010 at 4:43:

    I’ll bet when WikiLeaks tried to contact the Pentagon, the operator thought they were just a bunch of kooks and routed their call into the bit bucket…

    “Hey, we have 90,000 of your secret documents and we need someone who can review them to redact any information that might compromise American military personnel or agents.”

    “Huh? Who are you? Did you know that making crank calls to the Pentagon is a federal offense? Go away and don’t call again!”