A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

JUST BECAUSE I'M PARANOID DOESN'T MEAN THEY AREN'T OUT TO GET YOU: Awhile ago I suggested that the end result of the telecom lobby's efforts end to net-neutrality would be to allow cable companies to carve up the web into channels and arbitrage the pants off of us mild-mannered consumers with "premium" (more expensive) pricing for "premium" (what you get now in one undifferentiated channel) service packages.

What if Verizon came right out and told you that's what they were up to?

Verizon argues we have had “a real change in the paradigm” in dealing with network issues. (Water warmer.) Through its fiber offering, Verizon will put three separate channels into the consumer’s home, one for the Internet, one for video and one for whatever else Verizon wants to use it for, through its “virtual private network.” (I feel those bubbles.) We want to draw the distinction, Tauke said, between offering Internet services and other access, which would be services for which Verizon “may provide some unique arrangements.” (Rare, medium or well done?)

Oh, yeah. On a scale from One to Time To Write Your Congressman, "Honey, where are the stamps!?!?"

(via tpmcafe)