Comments on: New Net neutrality plan may ruffle feathers

Google, Yahoo, Microsoft want regulations for broadband providers--but not for themselves.

[LarryLo]

If you can't beat'em....Poison em

So this how the Telecom Industry is dealing with the fact that almost everyone wants network (not content) neutrality.

The fact that their army's of PR firms, "think tanks" and Lobbists have failed to brainwash an educated public not willing to lay down in the face of corp greed? By having some Rep from Texas poison the bill by expanding it to the point it becomes illogical... C'mooooon you can do better than that. He is a Democrat for Pete's sake, no one's going to listen to him anway ;)

[WJeansonne]

Google and Company Wants Their Cake and Eat it Too

Typical Liberal malarky from the West Coast. Here you have a bunch of self-serving players on the Internet that want to regulate it to their liking and punish others that want to profit from it too. Phooey, I say. Keep it a level playing field and leave the government out of it like it's been so far.

[LarryLo]

And Keep Government out of the local TV Franchise Debate Too

Lets call a spade a spade...I am amazed how the Anti net Neutrality crowd (the Teleco mainly) use "keep government out of the internet" as one of the talking points.

Meanwhile, they are down on all fours BEGGING the Federal government to get involved with local TV Franchise rights agreements (which have been around since the beginng of Cable) instead of having to deal with the locally elected government as the cable operators had to. HILAROUS!

I am not saying its a bad idea (the franchise changes), I am just pointing out double standards.

I AM A CONSERVATIVE, I SUPPORT NET NEUTRALITY

[JohnnyL]

Google and Yahoo are lyng to you

Looks like the Google and Yahoo have no clue as to what it is they are actually for when it comes to "net neutrality" . The telco proposal has nothing to do with asking higher fees for the "last mile" to the consumer homes. The fees are for travel through faster broadband pipes before the content even gets close to your home. The net congestion that Google paying a higher fee to avoid happens long before the content gets to that last "mile" or whatever the distance is.

[Maelstorm]

Hahahaha

This article was hilarious. Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Microsoft...I bet they are *VERY* worried about the direction that Net Neutrality debate is taking. I know I would be. I guess they didn't expect it to backfire in their faces like this. Sorry, I'm a fan a net neutrality, and I fully support it. If it means regulating companies of the likes of Google, then so be it.

If the likes of AT&T need money to expand their network, then they can charge their own customers, not someone else's.