NYT article on deal between Verizon and Google is inaccurate. Original source. (opens in new tab)

Tim O'Reilly warned us:

http://www.google.com/buzz/timoreilly/j61qZ42h6rB/Frustrated...

But seriously, that's strike two. One more strike, and personally I won't be reading the NYTimes for anything technology-related. Even via a link. Or perhaps I will. But I will immediately adjust my could-be-b.s. skepticism filters to 50%. I don't know if it's the reputation of the newspaper that makes them think that they can opine op-ed style (the first two sentences, including the lede, of the NYTimes piece have the word 'could' in it). But you can only mess up so many times before you get a negative reputation that is pretty hard to remove...

I don't think we can use Bloomberg to rule NYT inaccurate. Who's to say that Bloomberg's isn't sourced from major PR spin generated after NYT called for comment? The Bloomberg article very carefully states that the contract "restricts selective slowing", not that it requires total neutrality (i.e., "selective speeding" would not be restricted). Neither Google nor Verizon have responded to the NYT article, which makes me question just how inaccurate it is.

Politico has sources claiming that the agreement explicitly allows for Verizon to prioritize traffic: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/40668.html

PCMag is reporting Google's full denial of any such deal. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2367436,00.asp

AFAIK, net neutrality has never pertained to prioritised mobile traffic. So such a deal would seem to be outside the discussion, but I would agree that it would certainly make G look hypocritical.

Well, wait. I hate the NYTimes and generally distrust them as well, and what they've written is slightly inaccurate. But at the same time, the Bloomberg article states the neutral policy doesn't apply to mobile - Verizon still gets to throttle there. The number of people who access the internet only by mobile phone is increasing, and as rumors are leaking about a 1.5ghz phone, and the iPad is getting more and more popular, I can't help but think mobile will some day be the biggest if not only thing actually accessing the internet.