Amid reports that Verizon and Google are near a deal of their own on Net neutrality principles, new reports suggest the Federal Communications Commission has decided to stop brokering a compromise between the parties.
« We welcome the FCC’s decision to end its backroom meetings, » said S. Derek Turner, research director for Free Press, in a statement. « Phones have been ringing off the hook and e-mail inboxes overflowing at the FCC, as an outraged public learned about the closed-door deal-making and saw the biggest players trying to carve up the Internet for themselves. We’re relieved to see that the FCC now apparently finds dangerous side deals from companies like Verizon and Google to be distasteful and unproductive. »
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