June 9, 2006

Data Ports in a Storm

By DAVID GLENN

The debate over whether Internet providers can play favorites harks back to arguments over British wharves and Midwestern grain elevators

During the decade after the Civil War, farmers in the American Midwest produced millions of tons of grain, a large proportion of which eventually passed through the ports and rail yards of Chicago. The city was served by just 14 grain elevators — and it appeared unlikely that any more would be built because open land along the rivers and

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