I predict this will only get worse. Ultimately, it will affect every Internet user or someone they work for, work with, sell to, buy from, or are related to. An Internet User's Bill of Rights is entirely appropriate and should be developed now to address the completely outrageous imbalance of power between users and ISPs . This is something that should be added to Vice-President Al Gore's proposed Electronic Bill of Rights . Though the proposed opt-out registry doesn't cover the Internet, it could very easily be added.
Privacy is important.
But if the Internet stands for anything, it means empowering the user. That has as much to do with freedom as it does privacy. One of the fundamental tenets of Internet users' rights should be the recognition that bandwidth is a publicly owned resource , no different than telephone, broadcast, cable and utilities. The ISP, merely a reseller, must be required to relinquish all content control to the user. Of course not.