So says Glenn Reynolds, aka Instapundit.

But things don’t stay open on their own, and there are some signs that the Internet may grow less open in the future. One such sign is the movement by ISPs toward a two-tier Internet where “users would find it easier and quicker to connect to services provided by the companies that paid … fees than others. Invisibly, customers would be steered towards these ‘approved’ services.”

I’m already paying BellSouth for my Internet service, and if they can’t make it faster despite improving technology and lower costs, I plan to take my business elsewhere. I don’t want to see them trying to steer me toward people who pay them under-the-table for better service. But they’ll try, if they’re allowed to get away with it, and this is just the first of many such schemes, I suspect, from all sorts of players. You want to keep this revolution going? Be ready to fight for it.

Sounds about right to me.

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