Holman Jenkins provides a brief history of net neutrality from AOL to Google and discusses some of the debate between content providers and access providers. This paragraph is particularly telling and relevant for North Carolina, which has agreed to pay Google and Apple to put server farms in the state.
And Google has allies. The greatest fear of Microsoft, Amazon, eBay and Yahoo is having to plumb their deep pockets and offer competing payments to broadband carriers to speed their bits to consumers. They much prefer spending their money to sprinkle server farms around the globe, assuring fast, reliable access for their customers in a way that no newcomer can easily replicate.
