NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Facebook and Google, two of the world’s biggest and most influential online companies, are duking it out in a very public battle over who should control the Internet.
That war of words continued on Thursday, when Google wrote a rebuttal to responses on its joint policy proposal with Verizon about an open-Internet standard known as “Net neutrality.” The rebuttal comes a day after Facebook said it disagreed with the substance of Google and Verizon’s pact.
In a 1,133-word blog post — 361 words longer than the actual proposal — Google produced a fact sheet to counter what it called “inaccuracies” about its position.
Google maintained that it hadn’t “sold out” on Net neutrality, even though it previously supported an opposing position on how wireless networks should be regulated. The company said that “given political realities,” legislation on the topic was going nowhere, and it had to come up with a compromise.
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