[clmckinley]

I am strongly on the side of free markets.

The problem is that large infrastructure based industries like the internet are very vulnerable to monopolies or oligopolies. That is clearly the case with the internet and it is getting worse with the infrastructure owners are buying the content companies.

When oligopolies own the infrastructure needed for other companies to innovate then that is exactly where the government needs to step in to prevent them from abusing their position to stifle innovation. That move actually protects the free market.

[rtx]

Do you know how they become oligopolies, by using regulation. Government should just help by removing barriers. Let there be innovation in ISP space.

[unityByFreedom]

> Do you know how they become oligopolies, by using regulation

Perhaps. Without any regulation, what we might consider criminal activity increases.

> Government should just help by removing barriers. Let there be innovation in ISP space

Not sure I would call content silos "innovation"

It isn't true that any and all regulation is bad, nor is it true that it's all good. We've chosen to make some laws as a society over which we will punish law-breakers for thousands of years. We just need to decide how to approach net neutrality in 2017 and make the best choice for increasing quality of life.

[swsieber]

Yup, but that's not what this net nuetrality removal will do - it keeps the regulations that give monopoly positions possible, while removing regulations that prevented certain abuses.

I'm in favor of removing some regulations here. I'm not in favor of calling all regulation removals good.