I am aware of the history of the internet. I am responding above to rhetorical mischaracterizations of the Pauls' statements. As to whether DARPA's history su

I am aware of the history of the internet. I am responding above to rhetorical mischaracterizations of the Pauls' statements. As to whether DARPA's history suggests that any 'net neutrality' regulations would be applied in an 'enlightened' manner, I find that idea laughable. The FCC is not run by by research scientists who value the end-to-end principle and resistance to damage/censorship above all else. The Congresspeople who'd be passing the enabling legislation are those who keep passing 'Decency Acts' (no matter how many times the Supreme Court strikes them down), enabling new wiretapping powers, and trying to sneak favors to big donor industries into legislation. The internet is no longer a research project or prototype. Its equipment, infrastructure, and services are now overwhelmingly privately provided. We should look at attempts to federally impose "network" neutrality with as much skepticism as if they were trying to impose "printing press" neutrality or "nonfiction book neutrality" or "newsprint neutrality". Those ideas would rightly be heckled, were they proposed, because our society understands at a deep level that the printed/written word should be a government hands-off zone, from author through editor-publisher-distributor. The same should apply to the internet.