User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Battle for the Net: Internet Slowdown/@comment-24963361-20140915040329/@comment-25035274-20140915114858

"Slowdown," meaning a number of large US internet service providers are trying to convince the American government to give them the right to form a "slow" and "fast" (or, more accurately, low priority and high priority) lanes of traffic, with only those who pay them an extra premium on top of their normal internet charges getting into the "fast" lane.