The End of Net Neutrality? (and the Internet as we know it)

Google Wants Its Own Fast Track on the Web:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122929270127905065.html

Very interesting article about the future of the Internet. If they do this it could kill the Internet as we know it.

The contentious issue has wide ramifications for the Internet as a platform for new businesses. If companies like Google succeed in negotiating preferential treatment, the Internet could become a place where wealthy companies get faster and easier access to the Web than less affluent ones, according to advocates of network neutrality. That could choke off competition, they say.

For computer users, it could mean that Web sites by companies not able to strike fast-lane deals will respond more slowly than those by companies able to pay. In the worst-case scenario, the Internet could become a medium where large companies, such as Comcast Corp. in cable television, would control both distribution and content -- and much of what users can access, according to neutrality advocates.