[miguelrochefort]

So are most economists.

Net Neutrality allows the government to control the internet. Many of us believe that the internet should remain free and unregulated.

We all agree that ISP monopolies are a problem, and that's what should be tackled. It's much better to give monopolies competition that to force them to be fair.

Here's more people opposing Net Neutrality: https://www.reddit.com/r/NoNetNeutrality/

[AnimalMuppet]

> Net Neutrality allows the government to control the internet.

Well... Net Neutrality allows the government to prohibit certain actions on the internet. That's a form of control, true, but it's a long way from "control the internet". (See the Great Firewall of China, or worse, North Korea for what "controlling the internet" can really mean.)

Governments - even free governments - always prohibit a subset of actions. We have freedom of speech, for example, but not freedom to falsely advertise.

> We all agree that ISP monopolies are a problem, and that's what should be tackled. It's much better to give monopolies competition that to force them to be fair.

Here I will agree with you.

[xt00]

Economists are for anything that says the free market solves the problem and governments are not the solution.. in this case, the main people who want to get rid of net neutrality are big corporations who want to charge people for the right to allow you to access something versus the consumer choosing what they want to access and the ISP's need to just be a dumb pipe.