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Backers of Open Internet Protest Outside Google HQ

HeadlineAug 16, 2010

Supporters of a free and open internet rallied outside Google headquarters on Friday protesting a proposal by Google and Verizon that could radically restructure the internet by essentially creating a two-tiered internet system. Organizers from Free Press and Color of Change delivered petitions signed by 300,000 people calling on Google to abandon the proposal.

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