Restoring Long-Standing Net Neutrality Protections  September
22, 2006 Massive innovation on the Internet since its creation
is in part the result of pre-2005 Net Neutrality protections.
Starting nearly forty years ago, the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) concluded that under Title II of the
Communications Act, telephone companies and network owners were
prohibited from interfering with or discriminating against
"telecommunications services" offering computer network access.
The availability of common carrier telephone networks to
independent equipment manufacturers and Internet Service
Providers (ISPs) led to the Internet's birth. Entrepreneurs
freely developed pioneering services and products resulting in a
technological revolution driving our nation's economic growth in
the last decade.  All of those protections were suddenly lost in
2005 after the Supreme Court's decision in NCTA v. Brand X.
Since 2002, the FCC attempted to reverse decades of applying
Title II's nondiscrimination principles to net