[FACT comments: The operative concept here is "legal content" as such a law, if passed (unlikely) will be challenged by commercial copyright police.Are the courts perceptive enough to gauge the public interests?]
New Net Neutrality Bill Prohibits Blocking, Degrading
by Wendy Davis
Online Media Daily: May 9, 2008
http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=82270
Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) introduced a net neutrality bill Wednesday that would prohibit Internet service providers from blocking or degrading access to any “lawful content.”…”It shall be unlawful for any broadband network provider … to block, to impair, to discriminate against, or to interfere with the ability of any person to use a broadband network service,” states the proposed measure, The Internet Freedom and Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (H.R. 5994)…The bill would allow ISPs to manage traffic, provided they don’t discriminate between their own content and content by unaffiliated companies.
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