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Economides, Nicholas, and Joacim Tåg. "Net Neutrality on the Internet: A Two-sided Market Analysis." (2009): 1-10. Web. 20 Oct 2010. <http://www.stern.nyu.edu/networks/Economides_Tag_Net_Neutrality.pdf>.

This document is a scholarly paper on the role of economic factors on political decisions regarding the maintenance of Net Neutrality. Not only does this document serve to describe why net neutrality is an important issues, bit it also notes the advantages and draw-backs of acting both for and against net neutrality. Thus, in relation to my inquiry, the document helps apply the issue of the maintenance of net neutrality to the inquiry regarding the role of corporations on the marketplace of ideas. This is because the end of net neutrality would mean that ISP providers could not only charge for access to the Internet but also for providing content via a website. If this were to happen, the groups with the greatest funds(notably, large corporations) would be able to provide the most amount of content of the greatest quality the fastest while smaller donation funded sites(such as wikipedia) would be rendered incapacitated by slower network speeds. In addition to exposing the consequences off the end of net neutrality, the work also shows the other side of the argument by suggesting several advantages to the end of net neutral policy such as increased speed for many popular sites such as YouTube who can pay for premium access to its consumers.
Thus, I could use this document in my inquiry to directly tying how the shift from net neutral one-sided pricing (where only the consumer pays) to two-sided pricing (where both consumers and content providers pay for access) affects the ability of different content providers and consumers have to enter the parlor room ideas.