if you want to get caught up and get all of the background on network neutrality, feel free to read a paper i wrote last november on it: http://jtame05.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/network-neutrality-w...

it covers as much as i could think of in <20 pages: history, the problems, the facts, the evidence, the technology, the culture. the takeaway: it really is a serious problem.