I am a retired Navy Chief Petty Officer and work full-time as a Legal Assistant at a major Boise, Idaho law firm. I use the Internet extensively at work and at home to access personal bank and credit card accounts, bill payment, payroll information. Net neutrality should remain the standard.

In my personal life, I would like to research, check my personal mails, social sites, and other various sites without being slowed down due to lack of throwing away extra money that I don't have to satisfied rich people's greed. In my professional life, I would like to research, check my professional mails, professional based social sites, and other business based sites without being slowed down due to lack of throwing away extra business money for someone else's greed.

As an educator I started with the internet back in the early 1990's. It was slow and painful to use. Now it is so wonderful to have any and all sorts of information at my finger tips to use for teaching and personal use. If I want to present the pro's and con's of an issue, I can find that information for my students much easier than when the then internet was dial-up slow.

I am a semi-retired attorney who does pro bono work for civil rights groups and without the Internet I could not afford to do this.

I am the Public Information Officer for our Volunteer Fire Department, and we are very pro-active using social media not only to inform the public of everyday events but also when we know if serious weather is imminent to our area, routes to avoid during emergencies and Amber Alerts. This is done using my own personal Internet provider. This could be detrimental and could possibly cost lives!

I use internet for almost all my shopping, college research, to run my business and conduct important documents exchange.

I've used the Internet for over 20 years and the World Wide Web ever since its inception. It's been an integral part of my freelance work and research ever since. I couldn't live without it. I depend on unfettered access to research sources and online archives on a daily basis and most of these are hosted or supported by nonprofit organizations and various public and private institutions. Any disruption of my ability to access such information would certainly be harmful to my work. And frankly, it wouldn't benefit my non-work activities much either.

I am an international professional symphony and opera conductor. I also teach conducting to hundreds of developing young conductors. We attract students to our program in Romania at www.rconductors.com. Because of our relatively low advertising budget, our website is our main means of informing and attracting students. If we were placed in a slow track, our program might easily fail because of lack of exposure.

As a moderator of a local neighborhood list serve, and a research librarian, I believe that access to the internet should remain equal and free from restrictions. Net neutrality is the assurance that access to the Web and its content will not be blocked, slowed down, or sped up depending on where that access is based or who owns the access point. Net neutrality is a fundamental democratic principal and as local list serves have shown, is the new town square for community discussions.

An open internet is important so that I can get information about my company and its products out to our customers and employees effectively.

Many small business owners rely on internet searches to grow their business'. This proposal creates an uneven playing field and will negatively impact small business.

I have personally reinvented myself in order to provide for my children while staying at home with them while they're young. I would not have been able to do so without the Internet. I have prospected, I have connected with people around the world. I have personally launched a campaign to find my missing sister of 33 years. I have been contacted by people worldwide to sell goods based on my Internet reputation, built from the ground up. I have appeared on Food Network's Chopped, likely as a result of a well-timed email and a personal blog I created. All of this is very important to me. What ever happened to the breakup of Ma Bell? If we don't learn from the past, we're doomed to repeat it. Please come to your senses. History will replay itself if you let this happen. Share this. Get the word out. Make sure people know what may happen to the internet - as a result of inaction from people like you - and me! Thank you for your support!