Net Neutrality and the Law

A Q&A with Free Press Policy Director Ben Scott. He defines network neutrality as "something that you take for granted every time you go online. When you're surfing the web and you're moving from website to website, whether it's your Facebook page or cnn.com or Amazon, you're pretty much in control of your Internet experience. You can go wherever you want, you can read anything you want, you can watch anything you want, you can hear anything you want, and everyone who is offering content on the Internet for you to find is treated the same by the network operator. The phone companies and cable companies that give you access to the Internet through their wires have nothing to say about what you do, content-wise, on the Internet. That concept is known as network neutrality, and it was built into the engineering when the Internet was created. That was the whole idea behind the Internet. That's net neutrality."