why are we even discussing this....that evil 12% is the same as a bottle of wine. so if you do away with this stuff.....you just go get some cheap wine. Who cares how anyone gets it. The under age folks get it the same way we got it 40 years ago....we got the "big kids" to buy it for us.

Move on....nothing to see here.

This article is complete BS...NN does not make you pay for someone elses bandwidth. NN is solely to stop the ISP from making them pay in addition to their already paying for bandwidth. Users already pay more for more bandwidth. The big ISP. want to then make them pay more to PRIORITIZE their data. The want to go to Google or whomever and say...if you pay more we will PUT YOUR DATA IN FRONT OF ALL OTHERS that have already paid. Is that what we want....would you like it if Ford owned the road to your house and they let Ford cars go first....and you had to wait if you ha a Chevy. This is what NN does...it STOPS them from letting someone elses data go AHEAD OF YOURS.

If you use more bandwidth, you pay more...just as always. Its this Prioritization NN is set to stop. All data will move about the net with equal access to all . Has NOTHING to do with how MUCH bandwidth you use.....

And this whole bogus idea of it being "regulation" was put in the mind by both ATT and Verizon lobbyist because the knew that the technical illiterates Republicans in congress would jump on that evil word "regulation" and run with it. A letter was leaked to tech sites from the ATT and Verizon lobby stating what was going on with the word "regulation" They needed a word that would be red meat to the Repubs.

You are missing the point....Net Neutrality does not go far enough. We want the cableco and telcos to be forced to completely disgorge ownership of all wires, cables and sell to a single Utility company whose sole purpose will be to manage, maintain, upgrade systems. They will not be allowed to offer content....only access to ANYONE at simple , same rate. We want 15-20 different ISP options in each city. Not ONE cableco or ONE Telco. The wholesale rate will be the same nationwide and anyone can offer us CONTENT. Even the networks could be an ISP....CBS could sell us stuff directy by buying access on the UTILITY and we could purchase ANY content from ANY place in the country.

If I want to run an ISP out of my bedroom with a server....so be it. I could buy bandwidth the same as anyone else and offer service to my neighborhood if necessary.

You are right this time...I support NN, but, this is NOT NN. This is just a pissing match between an access provider and content provider.....which is NOTHING to do with NN. NN is about Prioritization of ACCESS only. They may be trying to portray it as NN to get someone to move on the issue, but it is NOT a NN issue as noted.

NN is about someones bits being put in front of others bits. Just as if Ford owned the highway and all others had to follow Fords down the road. They would put whoever paid more in front of your bits. I don't mean faster downloads...I can buy any SPEED I want to download...At my home I can now choose 1mb, 3mb, 6mb, 9mb, 15 mb etc. But again NN is not about download speed. Its about ATT or Verizon of Sprint offering whomever wants to pay the most will be put in line if front of everyone else as the bits move down the pipe. Just like if Ford owned the highway...would you be happy if they allowed Fords to move in front of you at every stop light or turn. I don't want my data request to be put in line behind Googles, once on the pipe all have the same priority and obey the rules of the net. You can still buy as much speed as you want at your home...but once out on the big data pipe they should all move in order.

Otherwise you are going to end up with an even bigger version of the cable TV.

Ask the new Google TV. Last week all 3 networks, ABC, CBS, NBC etc blocked Google TV from accessing their online shows that are available to all....supposedly...heh. So it will be blocked if allowed.

NPR doesnt get very much money from the gov. The CPB gets all the money and then doles it out. They get their big money from SESAME STREET to the tune of over 1 BILLION dollars. They need to force them to spin off Sesame Street to a commercial entity. That would dry up their ongoing monies. Then let Soros fund it if he wants to.

Why is that....Birthers ARE dumbasses. Along with Truthers. Same...yada yada.

It has nothing to do with the speed you can buy at your home. Its what the ATT and Verizon and Quest want ot charge the Google and Yahoo and Hulu etc to put their bits in line FIRST. They want to PRIORITIZE different bits. Right now all bits travel with the same priority. The ATT etc want to go to the Googles and or Bing etc and say...if you pay me more Ill put YOUR bits in FRONT of and hold up the other guys service. The stuff they are talking about is on the big heavy duty back-end pipes. You can buy whatever speed you want at your home. Just as you can buy any car you can afford. But then, what if all the Lexus drivers get to go to the head of the line at all stop lights while your Chevy has to wait till the Lexus all move on. You bought the car you can afford and they bought the car they could afford. But the rules of the road should all be the same....not two sets of traffic laws - one for Lexus and a set of laws for Chevy.

How is keeping the net open and at the same speed for all.....messing with your free speech. You can say anything you want at any speed. Without neutrality you can say anything...but it may be slow unless YOU PAY UP.

Sorry guys, a bit of disagreement here. How is keeping the net open to all at the same equal footing being "regulated"? If we do not have neutral access and data management this is what we will end up with. See what they are doing already in the UK.

ISP in UK are already being paid to put one group AHEAD of others....so your data will WAIT until the other guys stuff goes in front of your data - says: "The UK's two biggest ISPs have openly admitted they'd give priority to certain internet apps or services if companies paid them to do so.

Speaking at a Westminster eForum on net neutrality, senior executives from BT and TalkTalk said they would be happy to put selected apps into the fast lane, at the expense of their rivals."

Asked specifically if TalkTalk would afford more bandwidth to YouTube than the BBC's iPlayer if Google was prepared to pay, the company's executive director of strategy and regulation, Andrew Heaney, argued it would be "perfectly normal business practice to discriminate between them".

"We would do a deal and look at YouTube and look at the BBC, and decide," he added.

When asked the same question, BT's director of group industry policy, Simon Milner, replied: "We absolutely could see a situation when content or app providers may want to pay BT for quality of service above best efforts,"

Read more: TalkTalk, BT: we'd put iPlayer in the slow lane | Broadband | News | PC Pro http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/broadband/361501/talk...

If net neutral is put in place...your stuff will travel as it is put in...not held up until those who pay go head of you. Would you like for the guy with the Lexus be allowed to go through the stop lights and you in your Chevy has to wait because your car is cheap.

See article here: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/broadband/361501/talk...

I hazard a guess that most do not even understand what NET NEUTRALITY is about.....it has not one whit to do with SPEED...or ACCESS. It has to do with PRIORITY of packets passing through the net. At my home I can buy whatever speed I want to pay for. 3mb, 5 mb, 9mb, 12 mb or 20 mb. NEUTRALITY has NOTHING to do with such. And is has nada to do with CONTENT. I can watch all the pron I want.

It has to do with the ATT and Verizons of the world wanting to charge the Googles, Bings, Yahoos et al MORE to give their bits a higher PRIORITY when traveling the pipes. Sort of like the city letting you pay to go through Red Lights ahead of everyone else while they are red for other folks. Or for the city to stop other traffic so you can move in front of other cars if you pay up. You get a HIGHER PRIORITY for your bits.

The ATT etc wants to ask Google or Bing which one will pay more to put the highest PRIORITY on their bits. Then when YOU search your results may lag because your favorite search engine DID NOT PAY UP to ATT to put their bits in front.

Currently they all pass through the net in a NEUTRAL position all go or stop according to traffic...not according to who pays up to move to the front ahead of others.

It has NEVER been about speed etc. or volume such as so many gigs per month etc.

If they do NOT have a neutral position the biggies are looking to move to special channels of traffic etc. You will end up with essentially a glorified cable network again. There will be a HULU channel, Pandora channel, Search channel and you will start paying for everyone of them just as you do with the cableco.

You better hope for the neutrality and understand what it is about. They should turn the cables into a utility and allow anyone to buy space to become an ISP.

Perhaps the new white space channels where the old analog TV station used to be will finally break up this mess. They are going to turn those frequencies loose to become 60 mile WiFi or WiMax towers. We should eventually have WiFi everywhere.