Your comments boil down to "distrust of government/more crony capitalism" message for me. I agree, if that is where your heart is at. U.S. government is very

Your comments boil down to "distrust of government/more crony capitalism" message for me. I agree, if that is where your heart is at. U.S. government is very dysfunctional. Corporations buy up representatives, regulatory agencies are politicized and made into paper tigers or weapons to attack enemies with, etc. I don't expect that to change in the U.S., and in fact I expect deregulation and a non-neutral net real soon. Then, we'll begin the slow slide into the nightmare scenario where ISP's can extract more rents from both websites and users. Extorting fees from websites for accessing the fast lane to the users will be the favorite way of simultaneously increasing profits and wounding competing media companies that don't control their own last mile fiefdoms. When the quality of service dips too low and the costs rise too high, I believe the result will be a populist wave of anger sweeping over these companies. They will be broken up into smaller companies based on function, municipal ISP's will get established to handle the last mile, and there will be harsh regulations put on what ISP's can legally do with data flowing over their pipes. My frustration with the net neutrality folks (probably similar to yours) is their insistence that we "REGULATE IT" where no specifics are given and is not really a plan, leaving things open to mischief. The devil in the details here is establishing what is reasonable and fair for an ISP to do -- and we then fairness hug the ISP's to death.