The internet works already. In fact, it's a remarkable example of a robust competitive system developing with very little (relatively speaking) in the way of government regulation.

When I first started trying to get internet here in Silicon Valley, I basically had one choice for anything with a reasonable speed: Covad DSL. Since I'm basically a "go with what works" kind of guy, I still have the same DSL, but it's about five times faster at half the price.

Today I have my cable TV company, my landline phone company, my cell company, and dish networks all competing with each other to get me to connect to the internet through them. The solicitations are enough to make me nuts sometimes. My house is networked, with computers, printers, and a few video game consoles all hooked in. I have Ethernet and an Apple AirPort available.

Almost anybody can get high-speed access who wants it. If one company gives you crap, there's more where that one came from. The Huffington Post writer still lives in that old world where every town had one legal monopoly cable company.

^"Would Google, Netflix or Amazon ever be allowed to exist if the carriers had control of your search, movie choices and shopping?"^

Hello? Earth to Johnson? Have you noticed that we haven't had "net neutrality" regulations up until now, and yet all these things DO exist, don't they? And thousands of others.

Do we really need the government "fixing" things at this point? Solving problems that don't, in fact, exist?

"Net Neutrality" is a foggy euphemism for "government finally discovering that a lucrative industry has managed to slip through its claws somehow."