"if it ain't broke don't fix it"... Is an age-old saying that still holds true. The capitalist system continutes to work fine. Keep government regulations to the demonstrated necessary minimum and let good-old fashioned US competition take place.
Right now its FCC regulations that have prevented from the internet being changed. Look into the ruling against Comcast regarding Bittorrents. That was the government stepping in and making sure a company cannot deny a certain type of traffic. But hey, corporate bureaucracy is so much better than government bureacracy, right?
“It” (the internet) ain’t broke yet, but if we let Big Business run it, it will soon be broke. Just like wreck of news media, just like the financial system, just like the healthcare system, just like the energy system and just like the political system. Oh yeah, I almost forgot: like the military system. Obviously, we have to watch out for Big Government, too, but, if we can keep down the power of Special Interests, the people can tell the government how we want things run.
The only way "Big Business" will run the Internet is if government regulators and law makers give favors to the owners of a few.
If the government stays out then, we the consumers drive the Internet. Businesses will respond to market needs. The boogyman disappears.
The problem is not business. The problem is what might be called favoritism, cronyism, or corporatism. It is moving toward both fascism and socialism, and thus is harming us all. The problem is not that a few CEOs have weak moral backbones, it is the big government that seduces them into competing by selling their souls to politicians. The discipline of the market to keep such CEOs out of power is overwhelmed by the easy money from cooperating with politicians.
The problem is the power of politicians.
That is why we must limit the power of government and especially regulators.
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