Under no circumstance should net neutrality be impinged. To call this "Restoring Internet Freedom" is such a horrible double-speak-riddled misnomer! It restores NOTHING. It enables corporations that control network traffic to impose THEIR preferences on performance rather than keeping it neutral so I, as a user, can choose what I want and need as a preference.

This has NEVER been the case, therefore nothing is restored.

"Internet Freedom" is also a misnomer; this would make the internet less free and twist is more completely toward corporate and paid-for preference. This is the opposite of "freedom". Therefore, it will impose "Internet Sanctions", not "Internet Freedom".

The internet should continue to be treated as any utility is; it simply delivers something while metering but not controlling it. It is no different from delivery of electricity, gas or water. To imagine that controlling it is a good idea belies a deep ignorance of what the internet actually is.

I have been involved with the internet since 1981, when I implemented a small aspect of the Xerox/Intel/DEC Ethernet standard version 1.0 as a college project, then began working at Intel a year later on a single chip implementation. That implementation, and others, led to the expansive growth in demand for internet services.

This foolish proposal must not be allowed to be approved. Even the internet companies do not think it's a good idea.

Michael Kirschner