I wrote my senior law thesis on Network Neutrality. When I started my research I was on the side of how much we needed Network Neutrality legislation. By the end of my research I realized just the opposite. More hype from Al Gore types is exactly right. If anyone is interested in reading some of my research on this subject let me know and I'll send it over. 

I'm really disappointed in the depth (or lack thereof, I should say) of this piece -- I would have expected much better from Reason.

While current proposals certainly may have their issues, the concept of net neutrality is to codify the status quo, not to impose onerous regulations on ISPs.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to leave this up to the free market to fix. But there isn't a "free market" for the U.S.'s abhorrently slow "high-speed" internet -- the ISPs have, through overt government aid and regulatory incompetence, carved out de facto local monopolies. Even if your area has more than one viable option for DSL or cable internet service (or fiber, but unfortunately penetration is very low), you are likely choosing among the same sorts of providers: behemoth telecom conglomerates peddling "bundles" of landline phone service, cell phone service, cable or satellite TV service, and internet access (and not to mention, in the cases of companies like Comcast and Time Warner in particular, whole or partial control over many television and internet media outlets) gripped by intense conflicts of interest.

This piece gets the net neutrality issue all wrong -- no, we don't need yet more regulation to solve this problem. But we do need action. We need a market that actually has consumer choice.

Brian, you are wrong. 

Um, thanks for enlightening me?

Brian, you're the first free marketer I've seen who's for unbundling. Shouldn't service providers have the ability to sell what they want, how they want to sell it?

For the record, I hate the idea of codifying the status quo. Why codify anything that naturally evolved the way it did? At best it does nothing, at worst it keeps the industry from continuing to grow and innovate.