While I understood that this whole merger thing with Verizon and Google sucked (see article below). I wanted to know what it meant exactly for us consumers... so I emailed the one person I rely on to explain things to me in laymans terms, My sugah bear Curtis. So I'll just post what he emailed me, but suffice it to say that this was step one of not too many to gain control of the web. It's a slippery slope from here peeps and if you thought not being able to access things that are limited to the US was annoying (ahem NBC.com), then stay tuned, your favorite cyber stops might soon start to resemble the cable packages we grudgingly buy into just for the few channels we do want.
It’s just the beginning but it sets a precedent. Now companies will be able to stop customers from going to Facebook (for example) unless they pay more. There will be advertisements which say things like “Sign up for Bell high-speed internet and have access to THOUSANDS of great websites like Perez Hilton and MySpace for just $24.99 a month. For a limited time you will also have unlimited access to CNN.com and NBC.com for only an extra $3.99 per month!!”
The scariest thing is that if a company like FOXnews.com partners with somebody like Rogers, then they can say that Rogers customers won’t have access to competing news sites. Not only is this likely but it is their whole reason for doing these mergers. The whole point is to control, regulate, and make a profit off of communication while limiting competition.
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