“Last night AT&T made a dim prophecy official by announcing that its new DirecTV Now streaming service would be zero rated: it won’t count against its customers’ data caps. Zero rating isn’t new — T-Mobile has been writing the manual on how to get away with it — but now it’s finally happening at a scale that matters.” The Verge on how AT&T (and other companies) have declared war on an open internet. (At this point, I’m glad NextDraft is all text.)