Neither issue is directly related to freedom of speech. Net Neutrality is indirectly (extremely indirectly) due to throttling based upon bandwidth and content

Neither issue is directly related to freedom of speech. Net Neutrality is indirectly (extremely indirectly) due to throttling based upon bandwidth and content factors that could influence the types of content a user prefers to receive. SOPA had absolutely no bearing on freedom of speech. SOPA would have made internet publishers liable for the content they publish via user submission. The result is that a content owner could then sue the publisher, who currently hides behind DMCA, instead of needing to perform the more extensive discovery to sue to violating user who submitted the work. Internet publishers are still liable, even without SOPA, if they fail to respond and take necessary action against a violating user in response to a DCMA take down notice. By equating net neutrality, an almost absolute good, with SOPA this looks much more like an excuse to protest something instead of actual substance.