Forum Post: Regulate or deregulate? Do you fight for or against Net Neutrality?

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/11/senate-net-neutrality-rebuff/

"The brouhaha dates to 2008, when the FCC ordered Comcast to stop interfering with the peer-to-peer service BitTorrent, which can use a lot of bandwidth. That marked the first time the FCC officially tried to enforce fairness rules put in place in 2005 by Republican FCC head Michael Powell. The action came as a response to complaints Comcast was sending forged packets to broadband customers to close their peer-to-peer sessions - a tactic used by the Chinese government to block internet content it doesn’t like.

Comcast appealed the decision, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit last year vacated the agency’s net-neutrality rules."

This isn't about torrents, this is about content control. Does Comcast - or any ISP - have the right to throttle or even deny access to content? Does Comcast get to decide what we should and should not be able to see?

Does the decision on what is and is not allowable content belong to corporations? Or does this decision belong to the people?

Should Comcast have the right to cut off access to YouTube videos of people protesting Comcast? Should they have the right to throttle access to this site - an anti-corporate soapbox if ever there was one - as a business interest?