The Two-Tier Internet, Spiegel. T ripe for internet providers exerting their power over data, a fast lane for preferred customers, a “dirt path” for everyone else:

“Companies such as Verizon want to determine which data are transmitted faster, which slower and which not at all — and who pays how much for it,” says Gundolf S. Freyermuth, a professor of applied media studies at the International Film School in Cologne. “That amounts to attempts to colonize the new public sphere of the Internet.”