Verizon's diabolical plan to turn the Web into pay-per-view

[el_bryanto]

9. We are paying for internet access

And you can pay for various internet services.

But this is different. Imagine the web as a library/bookstore. Right now you can go anywhere in the bookstore you want. You might have to buy something to get access once you get there, but you can go around. And of course most of the web is basically free.

What Verizon wants to do is to charge internet providers to allow customers easy access to them. and they want to charge customers to give them easy access to what they want. It is as if they want to put up little velvet ropes all over the store keeping the customers in the lobby - if a customer wants to go to, say Democratic Underground - either Skinner would have to pay a bit to make it accessible, or we would have to pay to have the power to get there.

That's not a great example I suppose, but that's how I understand this issue.

Bryant