End of the Internet?

I have read several articles in the past couple months about this topic. It is only natural that companies should want to make money off of our activities on the web. However, this would mean the destruction of one of the only "utopias" that humankind has ever had.

Right now information and comunication is essentially like air. For a simple fee we can email as many people as we like and see any website we like. What happens when you start having to pay fees for email, and your content access is restricted by the "internet plan" that you get (like gold, silver and platinum access)? You lose the utopia. The information you can access becomes what communications companies want you to access.

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