Summer's coming to an end, Congress is about to reconvene, and Hands Off the Internet wants to shoot the breeze about summer movies... or if you prefer, the net neutrality debate.

"I start by admitting my surprise at how quickly so many of our nation's successful firms have jumped in to urge the government to regulate [the Internet]. I rarely meet a person in business who does not profess support for a free market, who does not long for the government to keep its nose out of the business.  But nonetheless, when fear of marketplace disadvantage arises, there is a tendency to quickly turn to government to seek protection or help."

That's the nation's top cop for consumer protection and she's pegged this neutrality debate perfectly (on a plane).

Anyone trying to understand the outlandish claims about so-called Net neutrality should check out FTC Commissioner Deborah Platt Majoras' speech at this week's Progress & Freedom Foundation conference in Aspen (on a plane).

Google, Amazon, eBay and the other large online companies have a sweet deal going on.  They've carried their narrowband dominance into the broadband world while successfully avoiding the costs necessary to building out tomorrow's Web (on a plane).  

Now, they've gone to Congress to freeze this situation, curbing the evolution of the Net with unprecedented new federal regulations.  Against this backdrop of corporate arrogance by the Internet's Big Guys, thanks are due to Commissioner Majoras for pulling the curtain aside to show what this debate's really all about (on a plane).