No Robert, small publishers needn't worry
Robert Niles argues that if service providers are allowed to offer premium access to corporate clients, it threatens net neutrality.
He would like to see legislation to prevent the such a move.
The industry's plan ... would charge individual publishers different rates for bandwidth based on negotiated deals. AT&T, for example, could cut a deal with Fox News, serving its content to subscribers at a faster rate than that of the New York Times. And people-powered sites from DailyKos to Free Republic would be left with the digital scraps, their readers waiting while AT&T gives higher priority to requests for webpages from its corporate partners.
Source: It's up to Congress now to protect Net Neutrality
Bandwidth cost is hardly the dominant factor in distributing content. It is zero for millions of bloggers. Who pays their bandwidth cost?
Answer: Those who derive economic profit from their outpourings.
Technology has made the Long Tail of publishers economically viable for hosting services that find a way to make a profit from them.
For a healthy tail, it is necessary that its economic viability be preserved, but that's not a task for legislation or government policy.
I don't worry about Fox News, they have to worry about blogger.com.
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