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The top tier would be a "Pay-to-Play" high-speed toll-road restricted to only the largest companies that can afford to pay high fees for preferential access to the Net.
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The top tier would be a "Pay-to-Play" high-speed toll-road restricted to only the largest companies that can afford to pay high fees for preferential access to the Net.
Who wrote this letter?????? Someone will have to pay, either she-who-will-profit, or you.

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The phone and cable companies now control more than 95% of all Internet access.
This is the current option; option 2 would be that the govt. takes over and adds content control as well.

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Today's Internet is an incredible open marketplace for goods, services, information and ideas. We can't give that up. A two lane system will restrict innovation because start-ups and small companies -- the companies that can't afford the high fees -- will be unable to succeed, and we'll lose out on the jobs, creativity and inspiration that come with them.
Again, who wrote this letter? Any red flags going up??

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The bottom tier -- the slow lane -- would be what is left for everyone else. If the fast lane is the information "super-highway," the slow lane will operate more like a dirt road.
The "bottom tier" is the internet as it currently operates, the "(new) super-highway" will give ebay an avenue to increase profits; it's just that they want someone else to pay the increased overhead.

Like most things internet-based, you're only getting 1/2 (or less) of the story from Meggy and are expected to swallow it while wallowing in ignorance; maybe it should be turned over to the Govt.
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