As an experienced network operator I can say that there is a LOT of misinformation on this subject floating around. It's something that is very critical to the future of communication, and will affect many large corporation's bottom lines.
Network Neutrality: We need it. People's data should flow freely and not be shaped/mangled/etc. Do you want your youtube/netflix/hulu/etc to be slow? Do you want to have ultra-slow connections to companies or individuals that cannot afford to pay YOUR provider extra money, on top of what they are already paying their own provider? Sites like this one could not exist under these conditions.
As a quick and dirty example, Comcast purposefully underprovisions connections from their network to the internet so they are congested and slow. This forces content providers to pay Comcast's highly inflated rates to locate extra servers within Comcast's network. If they want Comcast's(the largest US ISP) users to have good speeds, they must pay this extortion.
That said, 90%+ of proposed network neutrality regulation is wrong, including the ones recently brought up before the FCC. These proposed regulations are worse than nothing - they contain -large- loopholes that will legitimatise the type of behaviour mentioned above. If you care about the 'net (and as I see it the future of the way humans communicate as a whole), I suggest you educate yourself on the issues at hand and vote + harass politicians accordingly.
Also, the US is planning a country-wide internet blocklist. This is up for review again in January.. The blocklist would be managed much like the UK's blocklist, which has arbitrarily blocked motherless and many other sites without reason or recourse. If you want to be able to continue using this site, you should probably speak out against this.
Please don't let greedy asshats ruin the one cool thing us peons have left, and turn the US internet into an even bigger joke compared to what the rest of the world has. They've been trying HARD the past few months.
Resources:
http://www.eff.org/issues/net-neutrality
http://www.eff.org/coica
http://demandprogress.org/
