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Make sure you understand what's being discussed... it's not about censoring the net or anything like that. They're talking about implementing a requirement that ISPs treat all traffic equally.
The fear is that ISPs will give priority to their own customers, thereby slowing things down for everyone else. If I'm an AT&T customer, they route my packets through bigger pipes with better performance, in effect creating a toll road. Or I pay a premium for faster access.
The flaw is that all ISPs would have to agree on it, or else AT&T would put me through quickly, but Earthlink, since I'm not one of their customers, would put me back on the slow road.
The net effect would be that everyone is on the slow road somewhere, and nobody is on the fast road all the way there.
End result... no benefit to paying to be on the fast road since you're going to be in the same traffic jam.
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