Let's get our priorities straight

Adam recently pointed to Robert Litan and Hal Singer's new Harvard Business Review essay in which they defend ISPs' right to offer special handling for certain packets. They write, "The ability to purchase priority delivery from ISPs would spur innovation among businesses, large and small. Priority delivery would enable certain real-time applications to operate free of jitter and generally perform at higher levels."

I've recently begun to see this sort of argument used in the net neutrality...