Succinctly put wrap of the net neutrality from world wide web inventor (and glancing-down-at-the-cue-cards-reader) Tim Berners-Lee. As Lawrence Lessig puts it, you can really tell who's wearing the white hats on this by the company they keep. And what they do.
It's a fraught moment for the future architecture of the online society. The current Harpers
(no link available) has a wonderful article touching on the way the
Reagan reaction's eviscerating antitrust enforcement powered the rise
of Wal-Mart's competition-warping private tyranny -- in contrast with
an instance of earlier, vigorous enforcement against a company much
less dominant than Wal-Mart in the interst of keeping a marketplace
relatively open. [some DIA users have had thingsto say about Wal-Mart, of course.]
So the familiar intellectual tricycling about that old trump canard "unnecessary regulation" discourages, and may prevail this time. But it may also guide the nascence of its future political resistance -- well, at least abroad -- by kicking in doors with the jackboot upon which all this freemarketry cant depends. It would be apt
indeed for ethereal bits and bytes -- the nexus today of the mystical
and mundane -- to reify themselves anew as the eternal battleground
where grist confronts mill.