[SamAtt]

I also don't agree with the Tea Party sentiment but felt this article reflected badly on the author and not the Tea Partiers (I think that's the plural?). The argument itself is a valid one. If you give government the power to regulate what private companies deliver to customers over private lines than it COULD easily lead to censorship. You need look no further than Australia's nation wide content restrictions to realize that.

I'd actually agree with the Tea Party on this if not for two things.

1. I don't truly feel people have a lot of broadband options available to them. Most Americans are still stuck between their phone company and their cable company and that's not enough free market protection.

2. At least in the case of the phone company they have a monopoly on their lines BECAUSE of the Government's half hearted break up of AT&T. Meaning Net Neutrality laws would be the Government undoing their meddling in many ways.