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Save the Internet [MoveOn.org]

No, seriously:

• Congress Retreats from Guaranteeing Internet Neutrality [ConsumerAffairs]

  After successfully bulldozing Congressional efforts to protect "net neutrality," Verizon is rushing to assure American consumers that it won't block content transmitted over the Internet.
  
  Verizon also says it won't give favorable treatment to its own content. AT&T hasn't not noticeably rushed to give any such assurances.
  
  . . .
  
  But the chairman of AT&T has never made any secret of his feelings on the matter. Ed Whiteacre has repeatedly stated that his company deserved a return on investment for letting content providers use his "pipes."
  
  "[T]here's going to have to be some mechanism for these people who use these pipes to pay for the portion they're using. Why should they be allowed to use my pipes?" asked Whiteacre, apparently forgetting the millions of dollars AT&T collects for maintaining its portion of the Internet backbone and the additional millions it charges its DSL, T-1 and dial-up customers."

• Net neutrality amendment shot down [ArsTechnica]

• Verizon Executive Calls for End to Google's 'Free Lunch' [WaPo]

• Hijacking the Internet: How Big Cable and Phone Companies' Plans for Broadband Threaten Democracy [CDD]