via BoingBoing:
AT&T Inc. and BellSouth Corp. are lobbying Capitol Hill for the right to create a two-tiered Internet, where the telecom carriers’ own Internet services would be transmitted faster and more efficiently than those of their competitors (source)
Complicating things over a tried, tested, and constantly evolving Internet model, all for profit, will never sit well to an already spoiled tech community. Furthermore, when it looks like you’ll be bulldozing tech giants’ -Google, Yahoo, etc.- services, expect harsh backlash.
I wonder how locally-based customer support for the mentioned companies are told to deal with this issue.