What had been a bipartisan look at the future of Internet access, and if broadband firms should be able to charge content providers a premium in exchange for guaranteed digital delivery, became a partisan issue after MoveOn entered the debate. Net neutrality is the concept where all traffic on the Internet receives equal treatment. Packets go from place to place without one getting bumped ahead of the others. Such a status has helped contribute to the benefits of sharing and creating content and services online.
As noted by Jason Lee Miller and numerous others, the Department of Justice Declan McCullagh summed up ten reasons (really nine, he blames the Bush Administration twice) why net neutrality fell harder than a sack of wet cement. In his final reason, McCullagh calls vociferous net neutrality advocate "Some of the rhetoric got a bit out of control on the left. They started talking about the evils of pricing and the evils of price discrimination in markets. Anyone in the corporate side had to have second thoughts about that." We contacted MoveOn for comments about these views, but the organization, which has been so active in getting the net neutrality message out, has not responded to that request. This seems like the wrong time to go silent.MoveOn Blamed For Net Neutrality Failure
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