Preserving the Open Internet
Center for American Progress, November 2, 2009
By Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel, Matt Corley, Benjamin Armbruster and Zaid Jilani
Right now, it is just as easy for Internet users to visit a tiny Web site about knitting as it is to visit a site run by a major corporation. But powerful interests in the telecom and cable industries, along with their conservative allies, are trying to create a pay-for-play system where companies able to shell out large amounts of money would have the power to make their sites run faster.
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