"Fast lanes" already exist in the sense that I can purchase faster or slower internet from my ISP, so can enterprise level customers. I don't think anyone is trying to remove that, the problem arises when ISPs in the middle (the ones in between me and what I'm trying to access) start to throttle things, and to a lesser degree when consumer level ISPs start to throttle and want to charge their customers more to access site x especially when there is a conflict of interest. A good real world example for the latter that is actually in place today is when a cable company imposes bandwidth caps designed to hit cord cutters, and when you work out the pricing of an internet subscription plus overages it comes to roughly the same amount as an internet subscription bundled with a cable package. Things like this are concerning as they are a giant conflict of interest, and companies have been subject to antitrust legal action for less.
"Fast lanes" already exist in the sense that I can purchase faster or slower internet from my ISP, so can enterprise level customers. I don't think anyone is trying to remove that, the problem arises when ISPs in the middle (the ones in between me and what I'm trying to access) start to throttle things, and to a lesser degree when consumer level ISPs start to throttle and want to charge their customers more to access site x especially when there is a conflict of interest. A good real world example for the latter that is actually in place today is when a cable company imposes bandwidth caps designed to hit cord cutters, and when you work out the pricing of an internet subscription plus overages it comes to roughly the same amount as an internet subscription bundled with a cable package. Things like this are concerning as they are a giant conflict of interest, and companies have been subject to antitrust legal action for less.
"Fast lanes" already exist in the sense that I can purchase faster or slower internet from my ISP, so can enterprise level customers. I don't think anyone is trying to remove that, the problem arises when ISPs in the middle (the ones in between me and what I'm trying to access) start to throttle things, and to a lesser degree when consumer level ISPs start to throttle and want to charge their customers more to access site x especially when there is a conflict of interest. A good real world example for the latter that is actually in place today is when a cable company imposes bandwidth caps designed to hit cord cutters, and when you work out the pricing of an internet subscription plus overages it comes to roughly the same amount as an internet subscription bundled with a cable package. Things like this are concerning as they are a giant conflict of interest, and companies have been subject to antitrust legal action for less.