For one thing, it is illegal for an ISP to arbitrarily block content. Also, it is not in the interest of an ISP because more content increases demand for their service. The more demand, the more they can charge for it.

The main topic of concern is priority access. And in the end it comes down to two things.

1) There will be an incentive to keep bandwidth as it is and offer a premium service to websites willing to pay for more. Not only is blocking content illegal, but it would actually hurt internet providers to offer a lower quality service to their customers.

2) The only reason why websites would pay for a premium service for their content is if there was a noticeable improvement. Which means a noticeable lower quality of service for other websites.

And when it comes to the internet, no one can truly predict the future.

This is why George W. Bush served two terms.

We should let it simultaneously exist as funny and not exist as funny.

Anytime you're dealing with intellectual property laws there is also a bit of gray area that can ultimately turn into a slippery-slope. Where does the regulation stop?

This is more on par with what should be happening:

Twitter *is* the poor man's Facebook. Whenever I introduce Twitter to people and they ask me what it is--I reply, "It basically only gives you the option of making status updates like Facebook, and that's pretty much it."

Twitter is a bit more professional for updating coworkers, relatives, friends, and generally everyone by the single fact that you're also not able to look at last weekend's crazy drunk fest. I don't understand why Facebook would want to take over Twitter, except for the fact of spreading around more ownership and advertisements.

"With great power comes great responsibility." With more regulation at their own discretion, maybe it doesn't seem like such a bad idea after all.

Since we're obviously over-generalizing a typical slashdot reader's reading/interpreting habits, isn't it safe to assume that most of us skip ahead and read the article ourselves anyway?

These are the same people that probably sugar coat the truth and then eat it.