Smug-Mode Enabled
As commendably smug as this article is, many techies understand net neutrality at the macro level of throttling some sources such as Netflix to be a clear and addressable issue, The Register included:
http://search.theregister.co.uk/?q=net+neutrality&advanced=1&author=&date=the+dawn+of+time&site=0&results_per_page=20
So to the extent that lawyers, politicians and the like have formed these opinions, ask yourself where they have come from in the first place, and to what extent, at the macro, policy type level, they are actually wrong.