Jakob Nielsen's Spotlighted Links Internet/Weblog Culture6/5/2000; 7:18:15 AM April 25, 2000: April 25, 2000: "The true danger comes from allowing access services and browser software to be integrated with content services. Thought police. The one way to ensure the continued growth of the Web, freedom of speech, and democracy is to keep bit transport and Web navigation as two separate layers that are not allowed to give preferential treatment to any content services." Emphasis mine.We need to stop relegating this point to parenthetical comments and bring it out into the public and legal discourse. If we lose this battle, we will lose the entire war.