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!

Dallas 20-year-old Sir Young's sexual assault should have landed him in jail for decades. Instead he got community service — at a rape crisis center.

We cannot bury our heads in the sand. There is nothing clean or good about nuclear energy. We are left with a legacy of nuclear waste and horrific nuclear pollution. This is not something I want future generations to have to live with. It is not responsible to use energy that has the potential to be so dangerous and destructive as we clearly have seen with Chernobyl, Fukushima - how many examples do governments need before this madness is stopped. No matter how profitable nuclear power is to government, this means nothing if peoples, air, rain, and environment are at some point in the future polluted with radiation . The risks are too high and cannot be justified. Radioactive pollution can be a very dangerous thing because radiation mutates DNA, causing abnormal growth and possibly cancer, and this radiation remains in the atmosphere for years, slowly diminishing over time. Treatment of radiation waste cannot be done through degradation by chemical or biological processes. Additionally, many radioactive materials have very long half-times (time necessary for half of the material to degrade or transform into non-radioactive materials) and thus radiation waste may pose a risk for many years after it was produced.

An open internet is a lifeline for my everyday livelihood. I say this because my only life communication is through the open internet. So, this idea of charging high ridiculous fees is preposterous. Especially being on a poor mans budget.

The internet allows me to get online professional journals, medical updates, health information; join professional health organizations; get job leads; participate in health webinars. Personally, it links me to family and members of my congregation. Most of my peer-friends are elders like me and having this electronic connection--without high costs--is very important in our lives.

I am about to graduate from school with a degree in videography, and the Internet is my best source of freelance work. This change will make my portfolio website nearly invisible. How am I supposed to find work then?

This is a no brainer! An open Internet is the only option if we're trying to keep things fair and away from greedy paws like Comcast. I, being a musician, can't stress enough how hugely the open Internet has helped independent musicians survive and distribute their music without the help of greedy record companies. As we all know, in the recent past, major record companies tried to control how we use the internet. We fought them, and we won. The whole music industry is a whole lot more fair and balanced than before. One can publish, market, and sell their music without ever talking to a record company. I think if companies like Verizon and Comcast are regulating the Web, they will start to try and regulate everything else. This will directly effect music. If one person or corporation has too much power they tend to put their priorities first and that almost always screws the majority. This is a fact. So let's end this. We're watching you, Mr. Wheeler.

Stanford Professor Ian Morris argues that British colonialism in India eliminated "savagery," that genocides only killed two percent of the century's population, so they weren't that big a deal, and that obliterating the Native American population was justified since "people almost never give up their freedoms... unless forced to do so."