British ISPs attempt to defend their unbridled naked greed

Their greed fools no one, but they will win only because money usually does.

And listen to their exasperated tone in all this. "People with money should be able to pay for the privilege of priority, on the Net as in life. It's the natural order of things. My goodness, what is all the fuss about?"

ISPs have defended their right to operate a two-speed internet, at a key debate into the future of the web.

The debate was organised by the government, which is keen to see the principles of a free and equal net maintained.

ISPs are increasingly looking to prioritise some traffic on their networks and block some.

For this alone they should be pulled apart by wild horses, but read on brave reader.

They argue that if content providers want to pay to get their traffic prioritised on the network, then they should be allowed to do so.

Thus making them the Scum of the Earth.

And then there's this little gem from Simon Milner, head of policy of BT:

"In our view if someone wants to offer a service in which things are blocked - for example the Church of England might want to deliver Christian-friendly broadband - then they should be allowed to do that. It is no different from the walled gardens we used to have," he said.

And in the "multi-channelled" internet of the future, he said, firms should be allowed to prioritise certain traffic.

The Nightmare Vision of the Corporate Internet. All for "our" benefit of course.

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