Net Neutrality pt.2

[GhastMaster]

You pay taxes supporting regulation to ensure that we, including yourself, have equal access and right to use public roads, do you not? Why should the internet be any different? Yes, I realize there was a time when the internet didn't exist (seems like eons ago) and we did just fine without it, but in todays technological, networking, and ever fast changing world, its practically a necessity.

I would use the railroads and invention of cars as an example of technology overcoming the shortcomings of lack of progress in an industry.

Private roads is the obvious solution to your question. There are of course potential cons. Suppose the route between points A and B have been monopolized. I imagine point A or B may become less profitable to a point C. In this case a path to point C would compete with a path between A and B.

Suppose both paths become controlled by the same monopolistic entity. Travel by airplane or train or tunnel may become competitive. It may not be what any individual desires, but it would technically compete. To continue this scenario to the extreme, prices for commute or delivery of goods or services have become so high that exploration via R&D for alternatives becomes lucrative. I would think if teleportation is possible we would find it. Maybe there is a far better way to travel via air that we have not devised yet, but because the government has forced private property to be used for public roads, we have not spent as much time or money researching and developing a better alternative to ground transportation.

Many years ago people survived with limited exposure or trade outside their own villages. Even a monopolistic entity still has to compete with that. If people decide it is worth the price, they will travel outside the village on the monopoly road. If the price is too high alternatives will be found. In a scenerio such as this road travel would not be considered a "practical necessity" yet, due to the fact that society does not revolve around the flow of traffic. As such, the argument to govern it as a public utility/necessity would have less standing at this stage.

We do not know the limits of the human imagination, but we know how to limit it.

PS: There was a transcontinental railroad that acquired land privately. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Nort...way_(U.S.)