"FCC seals $86B AT&T-BellSouth merger
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The No. 1 telecommunications company's commitments included a promise to maintain net neutrality for at least 30 months..."
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After which (one can safely assume), "net neutrality" goes right out the window unless we all get busy and go here: https://secure.aclu....Advocacy?id=535 to make sure that S. 2917, the Internet Freedom Preservation Act, gets passed.
Given AT&T's penchant for simply handing over massive quantities of personal data to the government whenever asked - and looking at that shiny new "privacy policy" of theirs ( http://www.sfgate.co...BUG9VJHB9C1.DTL ) - I simply see nothing good coming of this merger, privacy-wise. Pete