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Make Money in Your Spare Time Doing Simple Online Tasks. An Introduction to Net Neutrality: What It Is, What It Means for You, and What You Can Do About It. @someguy31: There already are monopolies in the broadband industry.

An Introduction to Net Neutrality: What It Is, What It Means for You, and What You Can Do About It

They're regional and local monopolies. There is competition between sectors (Cable, DSL, and Satellite), but there's no competition between providers within those individual sectors. What Comcast and others want to do is objectively anti-innovation in nature, and here's why: Imagine you've started up a new online content provider. You have an innovative system and business model that could well give Netflix and Hulu a run for their money, but you're by no means on their level yet in terms of money in the bank and scale of operation.