The Internet represents the modern medium for the exchange if ideas.

It is important that no Internet service provider can establish
preferences for what they wish consumers to connect to, despite the fact
that they may be in a position to profit by doing so.

Internet access is, and should be, treated as a 'common carrier'
transaction, and this is the only means by which the carriers should not
be liable for the content. If they are purely a contract carrier then
they should be legally responsible for the content.

Freedom of association must extend to the Internet, and this means that
we must encourage Internet access, and not subsets of Internet access. I
do not expect the phone company to say whom I may call, or to purposely
offer better or inferior service depending on whether they like the
party I am contacting. The same should apply to the internet.

Although providing Internet Service is not strictly a monopoly, neither
is there much competition. My choices are via the phone company
(Verizon) or the cable company (Comcast). It seems very likely that, if
allowed to, both of these companies will choose to shape access to suit
their profitability, I will not have a real ISP available.

Although this might be better achieved by legislation than
administrative regulation I am (cynical?) concerned that any
"net-neutrality" law with be authored primarily by Verizon, Comcast and
AT&T, and be long and impenetrable, ultimately allowing ISPs to do as
they please.