There were chants - "they say COPE Act, we say FIGHT BACK!" and lots of great props and posters.  I had the opportunity to speak on the issue of net neutrality, which I continue to insist should be called net freedom, net choice or net equality, because those phrases do a much better job of describing what it is that we want.

In my remarks, I noted that while telecom executives may want us to believe that content providers are getting a free ride on their internet, the reality is that we, the consumers, pay to access the net - and the net we want to access is one where all content is equally available to us.  We've paid the telecom companies so much, in fact, that they've found an extra half billion dollars lying around to lobby against a free and fair internet!

It was great to see so many folks there countering the industry's lobby dollars with their voices raised in opposition to this bill.   The House Judiciary Committee's vote today to protect Internet freedom gives us reason to hope that, together, this is a fight we can win.