It's net neutrality that made FR possible in the first place. Do you think that in the beginning JR could have afforded the extra fee to let us visit FR with any decent speed? No, the MSM and cronies would have bought out all the high-speed access, letting us get only their news, everybody else relegated to the slow, second-class Internet that nobody visits.
Lack of net neutrality will create two classes of content providers: those with lots of money and those without. Those with money will be able to reach the people, those without will have a hard time doing so.
IIRC, what makes the Internet great is that anybody can be a publisher with great reach, or a world-wide businessman, with little capital investment. That great equalizer will now go away.
"IIRC, what makes the Internet great is that anybody can be a publisher with great reach, or a world-wide businessman, with little capital investment. That great equalizer will now go away."
I doubt it. The great equalizer here will be capitalism. It always is. People will simply leave ISPs that charge on a tiered basis in that way. It will be less than subtle when these ISPs try it, and less than subtle when they turn into AOLs as a result.