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    Honestly, though, we don't even need net neutrality, we need enforced competition. It's bullshit that we have one or two choices of internet provider, and the federal government should be stepping end to end this cycle of lobbying for local governments to shut out start-ups and protect the existing networks.

As kleinbl00 stated above, internet providers hold a natural monopoly because of the simple fact that they already are a utility company. They have built an established infrastructure and expecting a start-up company to come along and lay fiber-optic cable across the nation or launch a few dozen satellites into the exosphere is just downright unrealistic. Operating costs would price the Internet so far out of reach that most families would likely be unable to afford it. The effect would be a far more restrictive internet than we have today.