We’ve heard a lot of good reasons to oppose the Federal Communications Commission’s plan to allow for the creation of Internet “fast lanes.” However, the best one we’ve seen so far might be from Kickstarter CEO Yancey Strickler, who has written an op-ed for The Washington Post in which he explains why any plan that lets ISPs charge more in exchange for traffic prioritization should be a nonstarter. “[When we founded Kickstarter], we didn’t have to worry about whether our site’s content would be slower than a competitor that had some kind of exclusive ‘fast lane’ deal,” Strickler writes. “Such roadblocks would have created enormous logistical and financial hurdles — ones so big they might have shut us down before we got started.
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