In a recent blog post at The Laboratorium, James Grimmelmann discusses the Google and Verizon joint proposal from the perspective of a credibility problem for Google:
Google has enjoyed a generally good relationship with many activists and civil society groups who want to protect individual freedoms online. Even if what Google is now proposing is good policy, the backroom nature of the process sends an unmistakable message to Google’s erstwhile allies: we’re with you only as long as it’s convenient for us.
Read the entire post: About That Open Internet Thing.
James Grimmelmann is an Associate Professor of Law at New York Law School. He teaches Copyright, Intellectual Property, Internet Law, and Property Law and is a member of the Institute for Information Law & Policy. Professor Grimmelmann studies how the law governing the creation and use of computer software affects individual freedom and the distribution of wealth and power in society. As both a lawyer and a technologist, he aims to help these two groups speak intelligibly to each other.
