Cable and telephone companies are talking, however, about creating a two-tiered Internet with a fast lane and a slow lane...Creating these sorts of tiers would destroy the democratic quality of the Internet. Big, wealthy voices would start to overpower the smaller, poorer ones...A net neutrality law would require cable and telephone companies to continue to provide Web sites to Internet users on an equal basis....The cable and telephone companies have fought net neutrality with a lavishly financed and misleading lobbying campaign, because they stand to gain an enormous windfall. But there is growing support from individuals and groups across the political spectrum, from MoveOn.org to the Gun Owners of America, who worry about what will happen to their free speech if Internet service providers are allowed to pick and choose the traffic they carry.

We'll be working closely with U.S. Rep Ed Markey (D-MA), Sens. Ron Wyden (D-OR), Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Byron Dorgan (D-ND) and others to pass Internet freedom legislation in 2007.