Save the Internet

I think a better analogy for the article would be "The government has granted WABC-AM an exclusive license to the color Forest Green in NYC." but with the acknowledgment that they actually only broadcast a particular type of Forest Green leaving others unused.

The only thing that the scientist interviewed for the article doesn't seem to understand... Read More is that the airwaves are not an end user product like a television or a computer but are the infrastructure that connects and animates said devices. We cannot allow a blind capitalistic system to cut off people's connection and access based upon maximum profitability. That would lead to caste system permanence where the poor and disenfranchised would be forced further and further behind and those at the top would benefit at an ever increasing pace based upon their technological edge. The very reasons why the government began regulating the phone industry, forcing them to extend service to the outliers which they had refused to perform in order to retain maximum profitability. He dances a good dance around the term deregulation for a very good reason - it has never produced the desired effect, only regulation has because the goal of legislation is to protect and aid the public - not the spread of technology though the benefit of such for the public must surely be weighed.

Let's wisely regulate the Net - like Net Neutrality offers - not deregulate it because we've all seen what happens with deregulation.