User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Battle for the Net: Internet Slowdown/@comment-5264578-20140911194635/@comment-96.233.88.76-20140911213922

The government (hence this bill) is the only means to oversight and directing your "telecommunication barons" without whose infrastructure that is the backbone of the internet there is no internet. The "public" by itself has two tin cans and a string-- besides which no one "runs" the internet. Net Neutrality would enforce through law that all traffic gets equal billing but until then it's like telling someone who owns a private road on private property what he can or cannot charge as toll. The public owns nothing.