It's the usual M.O.

Create an artificial crisis, backed up by the usual suspects on the Left, and present a massive increase in government power as the only plausible solution.

There is no real problem with the internet. When confronted in the past with the false premise that competition was not available, I carefully listed all the many alteratives most Americans have. A list that's already increased in many areas. There may be some old lady in a valley in Appalachia who only has one possible internet provider, or none at all, but such people are the rare exception rather than the rule.

And of course, there's the radical idea that if a customer uses more of a product, maybe he should be paying a bit more.

The market has delivered us a robust system that offers us an almost incomprehensible range of choices and services, including competition to cable TV, telephone systems, and other areas that weren't even on the radar screen a few years ago.

As with most of these anti-industry "crises," it's all about the government getting more power and us getting less choice. And since the internet is one of the main sources of alternative information for most of us, it's already got a pretty big target on its back as far as the statists are concerned.