Mountain View’s tech startups are girding themselves for a big political fight over the data vital to their businesses. Smaller web companies say they could be crippled by slower bandwidth while premium data service is reserved for the large tech giants.

The issue is net neutrality, the principle that all internet traffic should be treated equally. These rules prohibit internet service providers such as Comcast and AT&T from discriminating against certain types of data traffic.More at the Mountain View Voice