The shifting positions concern some purists. "What they're talking about is selling you the right to skip ahead in the line," says Ben Scott, policy director of Free Press, a Washington-based advocacy group. "It would mean the first part of your business plan would be a deal with AT&T to get into their super-tier -- that is anathema to a culture of innovation."

Neutrality for whom? For businesses or for users? What Google want it is to provide blazingly fast and dirt cheap (or completely free) Internet access. Who's rights will be violated? Those slow thinking big guys charging skyrocketing prices for access to published information? Charge for access to your own website, if you own something valuable, but don't obstruct interpersonal and public communication.

"I will take a back seat to no one in my commitment to network neutrality."
This sounds ambiguous.

ditto!