All it takes is for a new law to state that the FCC has the responsibility to keep the internet an open medium. Then the FCC is explicitly given the authority to maintain net neutrality and disallowed from censoring it.
The FCC has shown itself to be tremendously sensitive to lobbying efforts from cultural conservatives.
All it will take are a few "harmless" bills that penalize content that everyone already agrees is offensive, and the next thing we know we have to worry about typing "fuck" in a HN comment, unless HN uses a NC17 SSL cert (for example)
