These folks argue that "net neutrality" regulations aren’t necessary to have a free and competitive Internet:

If you doubt the effectiveness of simple slogans, the current debate over “net neutrality” should change your mind. As the heat of the rhetoric rises, the quality of the information has declined.

On examination, however, one truth is clear: While both sides are prone to hyperbole and exaggeration, net neutrality enthusiasts are also just plain wrong. And the error is dangerous. If the net neutrality proponents prevail, it is less likely the phone and cable companies that operate most of the Internet pipes will have sufficient economic incentives to build needed new capacity.

Net neutrality enthusiasts believe that if Internet service providers (ISPs) are allowed to charge content providers like Google and CNN.com, the ISPs will block Web sites for their own private gain, thus crippling the Internet. Those opposing net neutrality assert the opposite: that pricing freedom is the key to Internet innovation and deployment of the expanded networks needed to handle rapidly growing Internet traffic.

The fact is pricing freedom is a key to the success of the Internet. And existing government oversight, including antitrust authority, is sufficient to rein in any potential anti-competitive behavior in those unlikely circumstances where market forces fail.