AOL and Yahoo have both announced that they will offer preferential treatment if you pay for your e-mail. What does that mean? Well, those e-mails appear first, which is a good thing. But the e-mails also don’t go through spam filters. Clark is not at all happy about this move, so we’ll keep you posted. In other bad news, Craig’s List is now thinking of charging in some areas. The site has always been free to list on, as a way of bringing people in communities together. San Francisco, LA, San Diego, Boston and Seattle are a few areas where the fee-based model will be tested. Well, that didn’t last long. Even more bad news is the proposal to start “network neutrality.” Monopoly phone companies are planning to charge Web sites a fee if those sites don’t pay them a cut of the pie. They plan to give customers very bad customer service on their Internet lines if the sites don’t pay them a toll. It’s ridiculous. Some people aren’t making money off their sites. They’re just offering information and having to pay for that domain name. So, the phone companies are trying to control freedom of speech.