In the US, the telecoms have been lobbying for congress to pass a bill that would allow them to charge extra fees to guarantee that certain Web sites run faster than others instead of treating all packets of Web information the same regardless of their content.

This bill now seems to have fizzled out according to the Save the Internet Blog: “Huge Victory for Real People as Telco Bill Dies“.

Obviously, the Save the Internet blog is not the most neutral of sources on Net Neutrality, but the demise of this bill seems nevertheless to be fortunate for the web’s future.

At the very least, net neutrality levels the playing field for small Internet start-ups that don’t have big bucks to pay the telco’s to ensure that their data packets are equal to Google’s.

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