An anonymous reader writes “Comcast’s response to the FCC may have triggered a new avenue of discussion on the subject of Net Neutrality. Rep. Ed Markey (D — Mass.), who chairs the Home Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the World wide web, introduced a bill yesterday whose end result could be the penalization of bandwidth throttling to paying customers. ‘The bill, tentatively entitled the Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2008, wouldn’t actually declare throttling illegal specifically. Instead, it would call upon the Federal Communications Commission to hold a hearing to determine whether or not throttling is a bad thing, and whether it has the right to take action to stop it.’”
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