[talyian]

Fair enough. In this case, "Road Neutrality" protects the consumer's access to a restaurant or bank. However, in reality there are civil rights laws that in turn forbid those restaurants and banks from refusing service to customers based on their ethnicity and gender.

I don't think it's a stretch, if we're comparing Networks to roads, to also compare network services like Google and Youtube to public accomodations like restaurants, hotels and banks, and discuss a set of protected classes for internet nondiscrimination.

[Terr_]

Right, there are expectations that We The People have created, and -- for better or for worse -- some of them were codified and given legal force.

It just doesn't all nicely fit under one "be cool to each other" umbrella.