No, we already have evil socialist government regulation, which is the only way that incumbents in any industry can restrict competition and thereby charge extortionate pricing. Unfortunately, for true believers in the one try faith of government intervention, the solution to problems caused by government regulation is always more government regulation.
The passion of the net neut is not amenable to reason and is not meant to be. It is a striving after purity. Mr. Wheeler needs to meet them halfway. Hence a modest proposal:
Let the FCC name one day a year as Net Neut Freedom Day, in which schoolchildren dance around a maypole and celebrate ancient rites and chant about the need to ban any blocking, slowing or preferential access to Web content.
If necessary, let one child volunteer to wear a "net-neut violator" cap and be subjected to good-humored abuse in the public square, while net-neut adherents are allowed to get drunk, engage in minor vandalism and wear paper hats that say "Comcast."
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as "bad luck."
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as "bad luck."
Good luck trying to convince people. I think that Malthusianism just makes sense to people instinctively, and that counts for much more than the fact that it's been proven incorrect over and over again. Even though doom and gloom about things like "overpopulation" have been debunked time and again by people like Julian Simon ("The Ultimate Resource") you'll never convince people who've bought into it to change their minds.