Check out the blog Kung Fu Quip and this incisive explanation of the facts behind net neutrality:

The proponents will tell you that net neutrality has always been - based on a law that applied to 40% of the broadband connections carried by DSL lines. It never applied to cable - which accounts for about 60% of the broadband connections. So NN was never “the founding principle”. It was a hindrance to DSL, and the lack of it allowed cable to arrive on the scene and steal the market (well, that and the fact that cable had faster lines and a $100 billion network investment to make it better).

These are facts the advocates of Dorgan-Snowe and their Internet allies have no answer for. They’ve never even tried. Kung Fu Quip also delivers more pointed questions with Shaolin style:

Net Neutrality argues those pipes should just sit there and let e-mail spam duke it out with YouTube to see who gets there first.

Read the whole thing.