The internet is not FREE and OPEN.
Access to it must be paid to the IP.
Browsing as a customer is free, but many websites require paid membership.
Hosting a website can be ‘free’, but that is rare. A small blog can be run for free, but a website with high volume is pretty costly.
The best way to ‘manage’ the internet is to NOT manage it. Leave it alone, let it grow, like it always has.
What the government wants is the ability to control the access to the internet, and manipulate the information on it.
The internet is the new ‘tool’ that the Democrats/Socialists/Commies/etc can use to stay in power. They see the ‘power’ it can wield, and they want it under their thumb.
I’m going out on a limb here and predicting that Obama, or “Mr. Votes Present”, will not veto this or any other bill while he is President.
Pelosi’s a fargin’ loon...
If the Democrats had their way, the internet would be as free and open as their Chinese mentors...
Now if that one sort of high speed provider decides that Free Republic is a "hate speech" site and should be eliminated, I have no recourse.
Or, if they decide that liberal sites should load at 10x the speed of conservative ones, there is no realistic alternative.
What does "net-neutrality" do that I shouldn't like?