Requiring search engines to remove links to an entire website altogether due to an infringing page would raise free speech concerns regarding lawful content hosted elsewhere on the site.

Under this principle, consumers can make their own choices about what applications and services to use and are free to decide what lawful content they want to access, create, or share with others.

This can have a "chilling effect" and lead to self-censorship of lawful online content and conduct.

Network neutrality protects the ability of users to access the lawful content, applications, and services of their choice.

But two tiny crab shells, emptied of their lawful contents, marked activity in the last hours before dawn.

The proposal calls for an enforceable mechanism at the Federal Communications Commission against discrimination towards lawful content.

The proposed framework would prohibit blocking of lawful content, applications, services, and the connection of non-harmful devices to the network.

These points are often summarized as "any lawful content, any lawful application, any lawful device, and any provider".

In addition, an obligation of transparency was proposed to limit network operators' ability to set up restrictions on end-users' choice of lawful content and applications.

These rules state that providers must have transparency of network management practices, not block lawful content, nor unreasonably discriminate in transmitting lawful network traffic.