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“The internet has become as important as anything man has ever created. But those freedoms are being chipped away. Please, I beg you, open your senses to the will of the people to keep the Internet as free as possible. Local ISPs should provide connection to the internet but then it should be treated as though you own those wires and can choose what to do with them when and how you want to, as long as you don’t destruct them. I don’t want to feel that whichever content supplier had the best government connections or paid the most money determined what I can watch and for how much. This is the monopolistic approach and not representative of a truly free market.”— Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, in The Atlantic in 2010.

It’s a good thing Steve Wozniak was in the Apple business and not the apple business. The internet may be important to man’s pursuit of happiness and a better video game, but it is not as important as, say, food. And who in their right mind would propose that the government impose “food neutrality” in which everybody and anybody would be entitled to the same food at the same price delivered on demand to wherever consumers wanted? Outside of maybe Venezuela and Laos, the idea of purging the food distribution/retailing industry of market principles would be seen as economically destructive.