Last week, a firestorm erupted after Google and Verizon jointly proposed new rules to lawmakers for protecting the "open Internet" and net neutrality. When Google and Verizon professed their love for the open Internet ("Google cares a lot about the open Internet," said CEO Eric Schmidt), they left out the future of the Internet, the wireless Internet. Instead, they would only apply to the wired Internet. Plenty of people called Google out for its hypocrisy. Either you are open or you are not. There is no such thing as being half-open (it's like being half-pregnant). Telecom companies like Verizon and AT&T want to treat the wireless Internet differently than the wired Internet. But it is not different. It is the same Internet, just accessed by different networks and different devices. It shouldn't matter how you get there, the Internet should operate under one set of rules.