Hearing on “Net Neutrality”

The Senate committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation recently held a hearing on the neutrality, or end to end, principle as it will apply to new laws regulating broadband Internet access. Perhaps not surprisingly, Vint Cerf and Larry Lessig both showed up to defend the end to end principle.
What struck me was the fact that, watching this video archive of the hearing, on a non-neutral internet it might be possible that invaluable modern access to government such as this may be lessened on a non-neutral net. If the regulatory infrastructure is changed so that certain entities or applications are given priority over others, it’s conceivable that even a government could have diminished access. What’s worse is that citizens who lack Internet access are deprived of the ability to view resources such as this in the first place.