Stuck In Neutral

Why is net neutrality important? Obviously, since you are reading this message thanks to Al Gore's Internet, you should know. Do you want the world wide web to be a tiered system, with those who have the money to make their bits and bytes pass through on the express lanes? I won't be competing in those stakes, preferring instead to use the plain old slow version of that web.
Way back in 1999, when Al Gore was busy running for President, he claimed to have helped create what we now refer to as Al Gore's Internet. That was not quite the same as inventing it, but a couple of guys who did do that, Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf, would like everyone to know that Al "was the first political leader to recognize the importance of the Internet and to promote and support its development." It is Mister Cerf who those in the know have called "The Father of the Internet." It is that same Mister Cerf, Doctor Cerf, who once suggested that he had no idea what Net Neutrality was. But because he is a very smart man and should have an opinion on such things, he went ahead and said this at a later date: "The fundamental notion behind net neutrality is that the parties who were supplying access to the Internet should not be permitted to engage in anti-competitive behavior and in anti-consumer behavior. Consumer choice should be preserved for the consumers. So what we don’t want is parties providing access also limiting choice the users have to where they go on the net and what they do when they get there."
The Federal Communications Commission believes it is okay to dismantle the rules that kept things equal out there in cyberspace. Soon there could be variable rates and ease of access to different corners of the Internet created or at least championed by Al Gore. I'm not planning on going anywhere, but it might be harder to get my wit and wisdom if Blogger becomes a less-prioritized purveyor of content. That's not very likely, but downloading a movie from Netflix could become more of a challenge depending on how much you are willing to pay for the service. And service providers could also speed up or slow down access to those things that they choose, creating a tiered system for users. That last frontier of cyberspace is about to get fenced in. 
And if things get really tacky, I encourage you to call up Al Gore and have him Google that guacamole recipe for you. He's got connections. 
Really.