It's a well known fact that lots of HN people work in industries that have a wide spectrum of thoughts on NN. Nothing wrong with that. We all have bias, but I

It's a well known fact that lots of HN people work in industries that have a wide spectrum of thoughts on NN. Nothing wrong with that. We all have bias, but I want to hear the other side's argument (even as I strongly disagree) as long as it's not astroturfed or deceptive. I worked at Verizon long ago, and anyone who's worked in a regulation-driven industry knows the difficulties in getting new tech out the door. I've seen solid technologies that ultimately died due to regulatory requirements. The real argument here isn't over the network, but the services that sit on that network and who owns them. Network owners have been pushing to own both the network and the services, just like they owned wireline and POTS dialtone. Networks saw the internet companies rise up on their networks, rival and ultimately dwarf them. That's a lot of crow to swallow. If the network owners couldn't dominate the network and services, then they wanted to extract revenue from the service providers beyond connection fees. That's egregious behavior, akin to double taxation in my books. So I think ultimately you will see network owners splitting and merging to compete with the traditional internet services. They will form up with the media companies and lots of shake ups will happen. That's fine, I don't mind. As long as the playing field is on the level.