When the Christian Coalition and Moveon.org agree on an issue it's pretty clear that neither understands it.

You see, Sean-Paul, I design networks for a living, and I've also read the Markey and Snowe bills. Because I'm apparently one of a handful of people capable of understanding the significance of this legislation for the Internet as it actually is, I'll take my own counsel on the subject.

You don't have the requisite expertise to do this for yourself, so you're reduced to a playing a part in a vulgar little drama of good guys and bad guys.

Interestingly enough, the inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, agrees with me about the Internet services that should be available to paying customers, only he failed to read the bills and therefore doesn't understand that they forbid the services in question.

Tim Berners-Lee says:

"Net Neutrality is NOT saying that one shouldn’t pay more money for high quality of service. We always have, and we always will."

But what do the neutrality bills actually say? Here’s the relevant part of Snowe-Dorgan:

"(5) only prioritize content, applications, or services accessed by a user that is made available via the Internet within the network of such broadband service provider based on the type of content, applications, or services and the level of service purchased by the user, without charge for such prioritization;"

Do the math.