FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is proposing to promote competition and preserve the free flow of Web traffic by applying to broadband Internet service certain provisions of rules designed to regulate traffic on copper-wire telephone networks.

Internet Neutrality is important. When the on-ramp to the internet was mainly dial-up providers there was lots of competition. That meant better email service. That meant free access to newsgroups. The access might have been slow, but the ISP's didn't restrict which websites you could visit. But then here comes cable and phone companies (in limited number and with little competition compared to dialup) taking control of the on-ramp as people moved toward broadband connections and away from dialup ISPs.

The problem with people in the Obama administration is they say one thing and then they do something completely different. I never trusted the Bush administration and I don't trust the Obama administration.

It was a Democrat, Andrew Cuomo, who gave the ISPs cover in no longer providing users included at no added cost access to usenet newsgroups under the total BS notion it was to stop child exploitation. For free speech, newsgroups were an important part of the internet. They still exist but are no way near what they were in the beginning days of internet access.

So will the Democrat Party pretend to be doing one thing in the name of net neutrality but actually have a totally different regulatory agenda. I don't know.