Dems plan to hold firm on neutrality

April 22, 2008 The politicization of the issue was strikingly evident on Tuesday in the Senate Commerce Committee as Democrats lined up to ballyhoo the nondiscrimination policy as the Internet's savior and Republicans vilified it as the a regulatory stranglehold on commerce. "The idea of your site succeeding or failing based upon whether or not you paid the telecom companies enough to carry your material or allow quick access is appalling," Bateman told the committee. Getting new creative products in front of people could become even more difficult if the companies controlling the Internet's backbone decide to favor content in which they have an interest.

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