Congressional Internet Protection Starts Now

[Commentary] The protection of the Internet is expected on Jan. 28 to be back on the House floor for the first time in three years. Granted, an observer would need the equivalent of a legislative microscope to find it, because the concept of an open, non-discriminatory network is buried deep in an $825 billion stimulus package. In the grand scheme of things, the telecom portions of the stimulus bill don't amount to "a hill of beans in this crazy world." Except that it's our hill and our beans. For those of us who waited for a new day to advance the cause of preserving a free, open and non-discriminatory Internet, the language in the House stimulus package is a great first step toward reclaiming the Internet and establishing once and for all the concept that carriers can't discriminate.