Craig Newmark on net neutrality

"There is no evidence that broadband operators are unfairly blocking access to websites or online services today, and there is no reason to expect them to do so in the future. No firm or industry has any sort of "bottleneck control" over or market power in the broadband marketplace; it is very much a competitive free-for-all, and no one has any idea what the future market will look like with so many new technologies and operators entering the picture."

http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-507es.html

Any Broadband provider who blocks Google will immediately lose all their customers. And will create a market in "100% Free Content" ISPs. I also think it's a good thing to be able to choose a hypothetical service where guaranteed high quality VOIP packets are charged differently from P2P traffic.

There's also the old assumption that business will tend to be evil and government will tend to be good.