I was saying this was inevitable early as 1996 by the way, but the internet as we’ve know it is now dead.

The Federal Communications Commission said on Wednesday that it would propose new rules that allow companies like Disney, Google or Netflix to pay Internet service providers like Comcast and Verizon for special, faster lanes to send video and other content to their customers.

As usual, the corporations win and everyone else loses.

In reality of course the corporations won’t be paying for faster lanes. They will be paying to not have their connections artificially throttled by various means, which means of course that those who don’t pay up will by default be restricted.

US internet innovation is at an end with this move, but of course that is the way large corporations prefer it. Innovation, after all, is the main threat to them.