If you haven't been following Congress' latest attempt to royally screw up the Internets, you might want to take a peek at this short video which explains what is likely to happen if things continue as they are.

For those who can stomach visiting a liberal blog, this post provides some more background, and some reasons why this one actually has a chance of passing unless something is done.

I don't see how anyone can see this as anything other than a sellout to corporate interests, who have not only engaged in anti-competitive behavior in the past, but have promised they will do so in the future. Whether it's outright blocking of sites, degrading traffic via quality of service measures, or charging higher prices for doing business with a competitor, it all ends up being another mechanism to screw the consumer, often when that consumer has no other legitimate way to get onto the Internet.

Anyone who believes there's a reason the First Amendment is..... the first amendment... should be very disturbed by this.