Jeff, I have listened to Rachel, and as a you think I am as right as you can get, you miss the point, just the fact that the US government is attempting to control IN ANY WAY the internet, will lead to political manipulation, limitation of free speech (left or right), and other political abuses (again left or right), and if you think this is a not a big deal you really miss the point. Any political/government control of the internet is an assault on your rights, even your right to call me names and my right to call Obama names. We have that right because of the Constitution that made sure that these rights would not be taken from us and a Supreme Court that is supposed to guarantee that that does not happen. Radio America came and went, why? Because of its inability to pay for itself or bring enough listeners to it. Rachel came from there and moved to other media forms because she was a popular figure. As for your apology I expect it because your first post did not recognize that I did research, and secured your information for you, and was an actual interview not a OPED that typically comes from the backsides of critics. You, as a democrat or liberal, not sure, are arguing the wrong issue, the political side. You miss the long term effects of what this will do. We will loose the Internet and its unique ability for doing just what we are doing. In the book "1984" Orwell writes "some are more equal than others." This is what will happen to the Internet, those that are controlling the Internet will start limiting speech in many ways, censorship, slowing down certain sites, and making its use limited to the point that we will have another communications venue come up and open a different channel to allow freedom of communication. Look at AOL and all those companies before that allowed bulletin boards. It is an evolution. I may come down to rogue intranets that will still allow us to communicate freely and without encumbrances. Jeff, your statements are possibly valid for the short term but you don't know the future either and your position on net neutral is wrong. It has been said that anything the government starts to control it fails miserably. Why? because so many powerful, greedy players inject their points into it and spirals out of control. Social Security, US Mail, IRS, Medical support, even school lunches have become a sad failure. Some are recent some have been propped up for so long it not funny.
Now in reading this is this a left or right leaning information. could go either way.
I just want a free speech America because to me that right gone is the end of America.