Congressional Digest

Excerpt

(Excerpted from Congressional Digest, February 2007)
“Net neutrality” is a principle that Internet users should be able to
access any website or web content and use any application
without restrictions or limitations imposed by their Internet
service providers (ISPs).
Without enforced net neutrality, advocates
say, ISPs could degrade a user’s access to a particular
website or block it altogether, diverting the user instead
to another website in which the ISP has a financial interest.
The question of how to define, protect, and enforce
network neutrality was a divisive issue in the 109t…