Net Neutrality is a red-herring. It is there for political brownie points but it does not address the core issue and problem with broadband access in the US.
The real issue with broadband in the US is the total lack of competition that has not and will not occur regardless of how net neutrality plays out.
**"ITS A LACK OF COMPETITION STUPID !!".**
It is not a lack of government involvement. Especially when companies like Comcast are in fact the de facto monopoly that has been chosen by local and state governments and thus the only real game in most towns in terms of a fast broadband provider. Neither is it an issue that ALL data packets should be given access to the bill of rights and considered "EQUAL" under god or some other bullshit.
Especially when the reality is sometimes certain large quantities of data along with the large consumers of this data or producers of that data within a network should indeed pay more because they can and often do cause increased network traffic and congestion which necessitates that ISP's expand their networks to keep speeds up for the rest of their customers and all of that costs money.
The real crux of the problem is the complete lack of viable choices for consumers compared to say cell phone providers of which you can find myriads of providers from the big boys like T-MOBILE, AT&T, to local firms or specialized firms like Tracfone, etc. So unless Obama is ready to throw open the floodgates and forbid local ISP monopolies from dominating localities and allow the same level of competition seen with cellular companies well then this is nothing but politics as usual and most of you bit into it hook line and sinker.
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