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In the United States protesteert a colorful group of people against a bill that American ISP the law gives the internet on to divide in a fast and a slow information highway. Also large names from the IT-world, as Google and Microsoft are, against the plan.

It is an unlikely coalition, 'Drove has united that self under the motto the internet'. Until the members belong among many the left georinteerde MoveOn. org, the libertijnse Allow Owners or America And a dome organization of American libraries.

They fear that it an end comes at the so-called 'Neat Neutrality'. Becomes the new bill accepted, will go ask give then internetproviders particular network traffic no longer per definition priority, or for instance extra money for the entry till 'heavy' contentsites.

With name Google is a strong supporter of 'netneutraliteit, because the business fears that ISP the entry to the pressure visit Google-sites will prevent to advantage of the own portaalsites', or money will demand for the many internet traffic with Google. com.

Adversaries fear further that the bill larger ISP a means in hands gives smaller internetproviders from the market to praise. As an ISP would be able to hamper the entry till the VoIP-service of a competitor to make its own service more attractive.

The American ISP see to realize the proposal right as a means product differentiation. They would can offer for instance against a more price surfers a faster connection to particular sites - a so-called 'fast avenue'. In orphans, this eddy comes on the end of the universal entry till the internet, by which the surfers visit can for an and the same price all sites in the world.

Anne Broache, CNet. com.