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My knee-jerk reaction was to agree with Cato, but the problem is that broadband isn't a free market. The telcoms have been legislated into monopolistic conglomerates. The damage caused by those laws is already done; repealing them now wouldn't help. So, although in a perfect world I'd be in favor of competing telcoms and against net neutrality laws, a government-created, government-regulated monopoly is better than a government-created, unregulated monopoly.


Why would repealing laws not help now?


Because the big telcoms already monopolize the infrastructure so no new startup is going to be able to compete with them head-on.


But repealing the laws would allow them to compete with each other.




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