[AnotherUnixGeek]

This is what "net neutrality" is about. Cable ISP's are desperate to keep Netflix from poaching their TV cable customers, so they want to make Netflix streaming more difficult/more costly.

In a net neutral world, they would not be able to do so, any more than the phone company can charge you more to call Domino's rather than Papa John's, or the water company can charge you more per gallon for filling your pool than for washing your car.

Yup - net neutrality is concerned with ISPs discriminating between different data protocols, services and content. The problem is whether letting the FCC/government have the mandate to define "neutrality" and when exceptions can be made is going to do more harm than good. Staving off ISP data discrimination by accepting FCC-approved data discrimination at the behest of political pressure groups like the RIAA or the PTC may be a net loss.

[Notary Sojac]

That’s a fair point and worth noting.