Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

To the Editor:

Re “U.S.
Court Curbs F.C.C. Authority on Web Traffic” (front page, April 7):

Without
net neutrality, broadband carriers are free to limit access to Web
sites of their choosing. Consumers have little recourse, because most
carriers receive government-granted monopolies.

Net neutrality is
not government intrusion into the Internet. Rather, it is our best
protection from the threat of censorship. Congress should act quickly to
reassert it as the law.

Robert I. Field
Philadelphia, April 7, 2010
The writer,
formerly a lawyer for the Federal Communications Commission, is a
professor at the Earle Mack School of Law
at Drexel University.