We the customers of any internet company already pay huge tolls for the benefit of using the internet, a communications system that was not only not developed by [corporations]. We pay way too much for access to a technology that was developed for government use with our taxes. What the greedy bastards are trying to do is to extort companies like Google for the privilege of allowing their customers [to access and use their sites]. And ... it clears the way for them ... to indiscriminately make money from users with zero accountability for service.

The internet was founded on the concept of access for all ... net neutrality has at its core access to internet services at any time, to any place and with no restrictions or strings attached ,,, users and service developers have in principal equal rights to be online.

... net neutrality ... [at] its core [is] the very idea of being a sort of "penumbra" that implicitly protects every individual's civil rights in the digital r