You are dead wrong. This is like dictating to guns and ammo magazine that they may not refuse to print pro-gun control articles. A private infrastructure, administering it’s medium as it best sees fit.
If you are correct, then why are the statist democrats the sole ones pushing for this? Can you point to any other Democrat policy that is designed to advance free speech? Does it strike you as odd that the people who bring you speech codes, fairness doctrines, advocacy for pulling licenses of stations carrying Rush, regulating internet content for accuracy, etc are SUDDENLY worried about the free flow of information?
Last, the flow of service providers is a rush to the bottom, price-wise. If some provider goes too far in a tiered price scheme, that give their competitor a chance to undercut them with a better deal.
Last, please explain how you believe the FCC derives power to regulate a private infrastructure of an internet service provider? Do you similarly believe they should be able regulate what movies are allowed access to HBO? Do you believe a newspaper should be forced to carry content it finds unprofitable?
OF course I don’t want the FCC regulating content. I’ve said that every chance possible. I also don’t want the telco’s to destroy the internet as well.
BOTH parties should not be peering into the contents to prioritize or block.
My problem is that YOU are painting this as a black and white issue when it clearly is not. The telco’s, who are wearing the white hats in your mind, are going to totally F over consumers if nothing is done. Take the worst of cable/FiOS/U-Verse/Satellite pricing/packaging and now apply that to the internet.