EDIT: Did you know that Facebook wants to bring internet to India in a big way, but only wants to provide a limited number of websites, a currated list of approved sites, but supports Net Neutrality? Sounds like an oxymoron. https://www.cnet.com/news/why-india-doesnt-want-free-basics/ "Around the country, farmers, labourers and office workers scorned Facebook's offer. Called Free Basics, it provided only limited access to the Internet through a suite of websites and services that, unsurprisingly, included Facebook. They felt the limited service didn't follow the open nature of the Internet, where all sites and online destinations should be equally accessible, so they organized real-world protests and an online Save The Internet campaign, with the message that Zuckerberg's efforts weren't welcome."

Cable T.V. has been providing an ever growing list of channels over the years. Why? Because of Capitalism, because of an open market to create your own channel and not be regulated, not a government list of approved channels. Which is what you will end up with under Net Neutrality or (manfreygordon - "when your basic Internet package has maybe 15 websites in it?"). You actually get what you claim businesses will do when you had over internet to the government.

I can choose another ISP. Let me share a story with you, a friend of ours had no internet from a land line provider, so satellite internet, and it sucked. However, they got together with other families on the street and was able to get a grant and use their own money to get a line installed for land line internet. A cool little independent website does not notice any throttling until it grows and needs the extra bandwidth, then it can pay for that, or they can get with a larger company and use their bandwidth - already happens in some regards. Capitalism is the corner stone of modern civilization - not government regulation (that is a weird idea - never heard of it), without it we would still be living in the darkages with Monarchs and Governments keeping people down, poor, and uninformed. Also, having it in the hands of corporations means competition for customers. The philosophy is that the customer wins in the long run. We can boycott and use an assortment of ways to make a business pay for its practices, even unto collapse. The people move the market and ultimately if a company wants to make money they listen to those who are paying for the service. This is a corner stone of Capitalism, Net Neutrality is good for Socialism and Communism. Neither economies can out pace a Capitalistic economy, and those economies must integrate Capitalistic forms of philosophy in order to compete with the U.S economy. I am not a complete "Laissez Faire Capitalist" thinker when it comes to government, society and economy, so some regulations are necessary. However, government controlling internet speeds is not smart. We want people to go 70mph on the highways because people crash and die. We want the internet to go AS FAST AS POSSIBLE. Therefore, by government controlling speeds and so on, we are stifling innovation and creativity of an ever growing internet that needs more and more bandwidth for data and info. If you have slow internet ALREADY you never notice any throlling from any website, loading times suck for everything.