Public Must Fight to Maintain Net Neutrality

The Internet is an engine of economic growth and innovation because of a simple principle: net neutrality, which assures innovators that their next great idea will be available to consumers, regardless of what the network owners think about it.

No previous mass media technology has been so remarkably open. Traditional media -- newspapers, radio, TV -- have gatekeepers standing between consumers and producers, with the power to control content. The Internet eliminates the gatekeeper.

Now, however, the Internet's unprecedented openness is in jeopardy.