Deconstructing the Google-Verizon Framework

I've just published a long analysis for CNET of the proposed legislative framework presented yesterday by Google and Verizon.

The proposal has generated howls of anguish from the usual suspects (see Cecilia Kang, "Silicon Valley criticizes Google-Verizon accord" in The Washington Post; Matthew Lasar's "Google-Verizon NN Pact Riddled with Loopholes" on Ars Technica and Marguerite Reardon's "Net neutrality crusaders slam Verizon, Google" at CNET for a sampling of the vitriol).

But after going...