The Chicago Tribune understands the agenda of the Google-Blog coalition promoting these crazy new Internet QoS regulations called “net neutrality”:
An apt comparison: If lawmakers had forced a uniform price requirement on mail delivery, the U.S. Postal Service, FedEx, DHL and UPS would have been barred from charging a premium for faster delivery. Most likely, FedEx and the others would not have been born, and you remember why they call it snail mail. Consumers will benefit if Congress encourages competition. It breeds more choices, lower prices and innovation. Net neutrality stops all that in its tracks.
I share their concern. The Internet is a good start in the direction of the public network we’re going to need for the next 25 years, but it needs a lot of improvement. Net neutrality will strangle it in its crib, and that’s not good for anybody, not even Google.