Imagine a network of private highways that reserved a special
lane for Fords to zip through, unencumbered by all the other
brands of cars trundling along the clogged, shared lanes.
Think of the prices Ford could charge. Think of what would
happen to innovation when building the best car mattered less
than cutting a deal with the highway’s owners.
A few years ago, Tim Wu, a professor at Columbia Law School
and a leading thinker about the evolution of the “information
economy,” warned
members of the House judiciary committee that this
could be the fate of the Internet. Companies offering
broadband access, he said, should not be allowed to
discriminate among services online. If they did, the best
service would not always win the day. “It’s not who has a
better product,” he explained. “It’s who can make a deal with
AT&T, Verizon, Comcast or Time Warner.”
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