Charging Content consumers (Score 1)

If they have the ability to know this much about the individual packets why don't they start charging individuals for improved network performance?

The network neutrality argument seems to be about wanting to charge the content producers more money for better access. Why not just charge the content consumers? If I want better response time, I pay for it. If I can't afford it I can still use the network, it will just go slow. If I want the throughput to stream video in real time I just pay more money. If I am fine with the Slashdot homepage taking 3 minutes to download because of the poor network connection I paid for that's my choice.

Its now a fairly democratic system. Anybody can say anything they want, every body can read it, but if you want to read it fast it will cost you.