The Cost of a Tiered Internet 246
An anonymous reader wrote in to mention a Popular Science article about the money issues involved in a tiered internet. From the article: "With a tiered Internet, such routing technology could be used preferentially to deliver either the telecoms' own services or those of companies who had paid the requisite fees. What does this mean for the rest of us? A stealth Web tax, for one thing. 'Google and Amazon and Yahoo are not going to slice those payments out of their profit margins and eat them,' says Ben Scott, policy director for Free Press, a nonprofit group that monitors media-related legislation. 'They're going to pass them on to the consumer. So I'll end up paying twice. I'm going to pay my $29.99 a month for access, and then I'm going to pay higher prices for consumer goods all across the economy because these Internet companies will charge more for online advertising.'" Update: 05/26 16:54 GMT by Z : The article is hosted on CNN, but is original material from Popular Science. Post updated to reflect this.
Tiery eyed (Score:4, Funny)
be fair (Score:5, Funny)
their rates and it will all balance out.
Re:My letter to my congressman. (Score:1, Funny)
You won't send your letter by post due to security matters, but posting it on Slashdot is ok? :-)
Re:Fix it (Score:5, Funny)
Re:My letter to my congressman. (Score:4, Funny)
Now tell me how you faxed the wikipedia link, and I'll be really impressed.
Solution is simple... (Score:4, Funny)
1 million lawsuits the day after should convince them otherwise.
All you need are lawyers....
Re:Solution is simple... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:lame (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Fix it (Score:4, Funny)