Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic?

Having seen enough egregiously offensive "Guest" comments to last a lifetime, I only wish you had signed in, so that I could give you a proper "Good Answer". This cuts right to the heart of the matter, and if any idiot in our world wants to accept that AT&T has "The Wisdom", let alone anyone other than than their own best interests at heart, I only advise them to come back and read your timeless words of wisdom again ...

And again ...

And ... well, memorize them, remember them, dwell on them, and NEVER trust the corporate gasbags to tell us what the SCIENTISTS who invented the internet wanted done.

Unlike Al Gore, I did not "invent" the internet. I didn't even have anything to do with building or designing it, but you can bet that, as a young communications engineer who had already seen first-hand how vulnerable our point-to-point comms in the military were during that period, I read EVERYTHING I could get on the "DARPANet" (the internet's original name), and nowhere, even in the classified documents defining the endeavor, did I ever run into anything suggesting it was intended to belong to the corporate leeches and scumbags.

Of course, it wasn't originally designed "belong to the world" either. But that one is a GOOD development. I can only see disaster if AT&T has IT'S way.

So, GA from me, sir. Thank you.

Thank you for putting this so clearly. I would go a bit further and suggest that what the 'founding fathers' had in mind is not relevant - that was then and this is now. They may or may not have been speculating about the possibility of the net being co-opted by big business, but we don't need to speculate. Foresight is great but hindsight is better.

We need to speak out. Call your congress person and senators. Call somebody else's congress person. Don't vote for a candidate this November who hasn't offered in public a clearly stated position in favor of net neutrality.