Not too long ago I had an article about an ISP/telecom executive that floated the idea of charging some BIG web sites to make sure they had a fast connection/delivery to the ISP’s customers. In effect, they would prioritize traffic for the bigger websites that were able to pay for the added benefit. Those that didn’t pay would have slower access by the ISP’s customers. One of the questions I floated at the time is what if someone has a politically unpopular site, and no money, are they dropped into the slow lane/ How slow? Maybe a political candidate…? This has potentially bad implications…