Telecom and cyberlaw professor Marvin Ammori has a great post at Balkinization on Net Neutrality and the First Amendment.
Next Tuesday, the Federal Communications Commission is holding a “workshop” on the issue, as part of the important FCC rulemaking to codify “network neutrality.” The workshop’s title is, “Speech, Democratic Engagement, and the Open Internet.” Net neutrality, as I’ll explain is of one of the most pressing First Amendment questions of our time, having an enormous impact on individuals’ power to speak with one another, to organize politically, and to change society. Yesterday, the same day the USA Today had an excellent, comprehensive article about network neutrality, the cable industry’s head lobbyist delivered a speech claiming that a net neutrality would violate the First Amendment.
Read more at Balkinization.