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If congress allows tiered service, my website will be closed. Will the typical browser notice anything, maybe not, unless they tried to log into Ironworks, and had to go through five minutes of ads sponsored by the "protected" sites. The ones that pay for high tier services. It's not all about competition after all. Sometimes it's all about communication, and no matter what, this should be protected. There should be rules limiting what these companies can charge for services, and for sites to remain online. As I have already said, I pay for my domain, why should I have to pay for it twice? I don't pay Mc'Donald's twice for that Big Mac I had for lunch. It' really easy to say it's alarmist, if your website won't be effectively shut down because you don't qualify for the bandwidth, just remember, that a lot of the message boards that we frequent will fall into the same category that I do, just barely floating, and will be effectively shut down, in the name of "competition", or ROI.
One interesting point, what happens to the pipe carriers, if the software designers pull the plug on the software that makes the pipes work? Perhaps, instead of pulling the plug, they should start leasing that software to the pipe holders, instead of selling it, and charge them. They'll be so glad they got their way when the cost of maintaining the control they fought so hard to decieve people into starts costing them Billions of dollars a month, instead of allowing them to rake in the dough.
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