The Internet Highway Metaphor Is Dated But Let's Stick With It Anyway

“While the plan is meant to prevent data from being knowingly slowed by Internet providers, it would allow content providers to pay for a guaranteed fast lane of service. Some opponents of the plan argue that allowing some content to be sent along a fast lane would essentially discriminate against content not sent along that lane.” Under the FCC’s proposed new rules for internet service providers, data sent via the non-fast lane isn’t slower, it’s just less fast.