You wouldn't even have to be sneaky: Get control of Comcast (for example) and simply block everything you don't want people to see. And block places where peop

You wouldn't even have to be sneaky: Get control of Comcast (for example) and simply block everything you don't want people to see. And block places where people would complain about it. "The New York Times doesn't load for you? Too bad." A handful of companies have a chokehold on the media environment. Net neutrality helps prevent them from exploiting it. And, right, maybe most wouldn't. But one of these companies deciding it wants to be a propaganda machine would create an enormous problem for the concept of an American democracy based upon an informed public. (Something we're already having troubles with...)