Color Lines: Al Franken: Net Neutrality is the Free Speech Issue of Our Time

The broadband debate got a lot more down to earth last night in Minnesota. Over 700 people gathered for a town hall meeting at a Twin Cities high school to talk about how, and why, the Internet should be regulated. (Watch the meeting in the video above.)

The topic of the night was net neutrality, the long-held principle that the Internet should remain free of interference from service providers. The goal was to turn a debate that's been mostly relegated to the Beltway into a discussion with...