We're running in InformationWeek next week. Daniel does a good job encapsulating the issue on Om's site. Om, by the way, writes for Business 2.0 and does a hell of a job on his blog. Wikipedia also does a good job summing up what is at stake:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_neutrality

are terrible.  let the free market have at it.  if the bells can get away with charging google to reach its customers on pipes the bells own why should they not be allowed to do so?  if that model backfires the consumer rejects and sbc or veriaon blow up well then the market would have spoken as well.

let them have at it and see what the result is.  

competition is competition...

The Bells and cable companies are a duopoly in some places, a monopoly in others. The consumer can't reject them. I don't know about you, but Comcast is the only choice I have, and the cable industry is party to the same ideas as the telephone companies. The costs will be ultimately borne by consumers and entrepreneurs. On one hand, while Google and Amazon can afford these costs, they would be filtered down to consumers. On the other, small sites and companies may not be able to afford differentiated services. It makes it less valuable to the consumer, who wants advanced, quick services. It makes video service A worse than video service B, not because one product is better than another, but because B can't afford higher priority service or because the carrier has chosen the winner. An open playing field with low barriers to entry and a predictable architecture is what created the Internet boom in the first place. While the Bells et al. say that they intend in no way to degrade quality, packet prioritization by definition means that other packets are de-prioritizaed. If this happens and prioritization/advanced services are allowed, the Internet will absolutely change, since the carriers will hold all the cards. They'll naturally do what's best for them in the open market. In the open market, they plan to build out their own video, voice and data services. You can already see the effects of this in a recent document Verizon reportedly submitted to the FCC that shows the company is setting aside 80% of its fiber pipes to carry its own services, prioritzed over those of other companies. Competition is competition, unless its Major League Baseball. Telecommunications have always been regulated at some level exactly because of their relative monopoly status. Until August of last year, these moves by the phone and cable companies weren't even allowed. That's what made the Internet work. Government mandated liberal democracy, with a little "l."

gov regulations aint gonna help!