Not surprising in the slightest...

Why would it not surprise me if the net lost its neutrality? Ten years ago, I would never have been able to imagine an internet that was not equally available to all - all areas of the internet, limited only by your baud rate. Allowing certain organiations to pay our ISPs to get a faster connection to us would have seemed ridiculous.

Network Neutrality — or "Net Neutrality" for short — is the guiding principle that preserves the free and open Internet.
Net Neutrality ensures that all users can access the content or run the applications and devices of their choice. With Net Neutrality, the network's only job is to move data — not choose which data to privilege with higher quality service.

Net Neutrality prevents the companies that control the wires from discriminating against content based on its source or ownership.

Net Neutrality is the reason why the Internet has driven economic innovation, democratic participation, and free speech online. It's why the Internet has become an unrivaled environment for open communications, civic involvement and free speech.

(from SaveTheInternet.com)

Have a read of this article on net neutrality. The very concept is chilling - and gives us an idea of the level of freedom we enjoy on the internet at the moment. Regardless of whether you're looking for the Microsoft site or a quick update on my life at neilsamtani.com - there's a level playing field. Give giant corporations the ability to 'control' the internet, and we're heading on a slippery slope to the end of the current era of 'our internet' to a stark vision of the 'corporate internet'.