[Doghouse Riley]

Well, in my neighborhood there is a broadband monopoly. I have a choice of Charter cable or nothing. And as a matter of fact, other cable companies are prohibited by community ordinance from offering their services to me.

You may call that a free market but I don't.

[NCSteve]

Well, in my neighborhood there is a broadband monopoly.

I see, and your neighborhood is the macrocosm of internet service. It is ever the excuse of the closet socialist that government intervention is acceptable when one's own ox is being gored.

You may call that a free market but I don't.

I never said it was a free market. Telecom is one of the most heavily regulated industries in this country. I was simply refuting your argument that there was a monopoly. Try as hard as you will, there is not a simple dichotomy of monopoly or free market. In any case, net neutrality will certainly do nothing to move the internet broadband providers toward a free market. It is a move in exactly the opposite direction.