Network Neutrality.

So, what's the big deal about network neutrality? Slate has a good article about the debate over network neutrality and its importance to the future of the internet. For the most concise and clearly reasoned examination I've seen on the subject, check out the works of Lawrence Lessig, a lawyer and full time lobbyist for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. In particular, his book 'Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace' is a critical examination of current American internet regulation (though it is a few years out of date now).

Lessig also has a lot to say on the subject of copyright law in his book 'The Future of Ideas', and has done some really creative things with it, under the auspices of his Creative Commons program. Lessig and his friends are very intelligent people who are currently fighting a losing war against a culture which cultivates ignorance as virtue.