By Timothy Drake

During the past few years, a huge debate has been raging over whether or not the F.C.C. should enact Internet neutrality laws. As Columbia Law School professor Tim Wu explained, “Internet neutrality is a network design principle. It maintains that a maximally useful public information network aspires to treat all content, sites, and platforms equally.” Google is an ardent supporter of Net neutrality and feels that, “Internet users should be in control of what content they view and what applications they use on the Internet. Just as telephone companies are not permitted to tell consumers who they can call or what they can say, broadband carriers should not be allowed to use their market power to control activity online."

One of the most vocal opponents of Net neutrality is the confusingly named Hands Off the Internet — rumored to be controlled by communications giants AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and Time Warner. Hands Off the Internet argues that the Communications Act of 1934 (ratified in 2005) already protects the Internet by allowing the F.C.C. to intervene, at its own discretion, in cases of online discrimination. Hands Off feels that government involvement will only impede the continued growth of the Internet.

Here's where the waters get murky, because the only folks to profit by not having legislation would be the companies behind Hands Off. The proposal for Network neutrality legislation is opposed by the cable television industry, as well as some network engineers and free-market scholars who believe that government involvement only creates problems. What they all fail to mention, however, is that they each stand accused of spending hundreds of millions of dollars to lobby congress and the F.C.C to squelch Net neutrality. If they succeed, it could end up giving the nation's largest telephone and cable companies control over what you can see and do on the Internet.

Also important to consider is the fact that this would enable the big telco companies to disable bandwidth for file-sharing sites and to mete out superior service to their own partners - basically making it impossible for competitors to do business. Comcast Cable has already been taken to task for purposely tweaking their settings in order to prevent file-sharing and for canceling service to those customers who actually used the full bandwidth they were paying for. This manipulation of service is the most worrisome aspect of the debate, and already some other communications companies have been caught engaging in questionable behaviors, too. In September 2007, Verizon was caught banning pro-choice text messages. After this shocking policy was revealed in a New York Times exposé, Verizon quietly changed it. And just a month earlier, AT&T had taken it upon themselves to censor a live web-cast by Pearl Jam when the lead singer criticized President Bush. We're still guaranteed freedom of speech in this country - but just not on their wires. Unfortu-nately, this is one of the legacies from the privatization of telecommunications. Supporters of Internet Neutrality argue that these services have become central to our society. They feel that telco companies should be able to profit from their infrastructure investments, but that there should also be certain ground rules and limitations on how they can use (or abuse) their power.

In February of 2008, Portfolio published an article revealing that Comcast had paid people to take up their seats at an F.C.C. meeting about Net neutrality. This practice is not altogether uncommon, but attendees noted that two of the paid attendees slept through the entire meeting. Much worse was last year’s revelation from Associated Press that showed Comcast was using filtering technology to censor Internet content, picking and choosing what customers were allowed to access. If you think China is the only country that controls what its citizens can see and read on the Internet, you might want to think again.

In April of 2006, Net neutrality supporters founded Save the Internet in collaboration with consumer-rights advocates such as Google, Yahoo, eBay, P.E.T.A., the American Library Association, American Library Association, Move On, the Consumers Union, various free speech advocacy groups, and thousands of bloggers. Just two months after launching their website, Save the Internet had already added over one million signatures to its online petition in favor of network neutrality laws.

Although increased government involvement often makes people nervous, the alternative could be much worse. Small businesses, startups, and entrepreneurs could all be made unable to compete. In addition, independent bloggers could have their voices of dissent silenced and consumers could be prevented from viewing certain content. Even services like iTunes and online shopping might ultimately see their business negatively affected if they aren't allied with the telco providers.

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