A net neutrality primer. Good reading for getting up to speed on the issue.

Quoted: If you spend any amount of time surfing the Web, you've probably come across the term "net neutrality." But what is it, and why is it stirring up controversy in Congress, the business world and the blogosphere? Here's a quick primer.

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Jon Stewart discussing net neutrality and poking a bit of fun at Alaskan nut-ball Ted Stevens.

Quoted: Jon Stewart from the Daily Show discusses Ted Stevens' views of the internet.

Tim Berners-Lee responds to the recent rulings against net neutrality by answering some common misperceptions.

Quoted: Let's see whether the United States is capable as acting according to its important values, or whether it is, as so many people are saying, run by the misguided short-term interested of large corporations.

Two new proposals in the Net Neutrality debate have surfaced (and you can get links for both of them in this article). Both of them take a useful approach to the dialog in that they conceed major points to both sides of the debate. I favor the CDT proposal which clearly defines net neutrality and delineates where the broadband providers can tread and where they cannot. It's a much more disambiguous proposal. But what do you expect? I'm not an internet provider.

Quoted: In an effort to advance the net neutrality debate in the U.S. Congress, two groups have offered their own proposals to prohibit broadband providers from discriminating against competing Internet content, while allowing providers to separate out part of their networks for specialized products.

I've met Paul Misener before and it looks like he completely owned the Telco guy in this argument. Chalk one up for Net Neutrality! Go Paul!