The free market has failed the Internet. For some things, like utilities, government regulation works best. It needs both, honestly. Companies need freedom to

The free market has failed the Internet. For some things, like utilities, government regulation works best. It needs both, honestly. Companies need freedom to innovate, and they also need rules to prevent them from screwing consumers and other businesses. I see neutrality as a means to ensure freedom for companies to innovate on an equal playing field. Here's an over stretched metaphor: It's as if UPS owned parts of the highway and only allowed delivery of certain items by certain companies. FedEx would pay huge tithes to them just to compete. Eventually FedEx would need to buy it's own network of highways somewhere else to lock-in an area and compete. This is an exaggeration, but I see this as analogous to media companies (like TimeWarner) buying up cable companies to become ISPs. Metaphors end here, because I personally don't see driving on a highway as a Right, and internet communication is very similar to Speech, which is an American Right.