Net Neutrality

This article is about the concerns of regulation in an industry that has an effect on the daily lives of many people. The internet has come to the point where it can almost be defined as a necessity of daily life. So the main questions are can such a necessity be regulated in order to increase profits for the provider since seemingly the providers have addicted their clientele, or should the net be simply be allowed to be run naturally like the invisible hand of capitalism?
Currently there is no concise enforceable legal code that enforces net neutrality or its non-neutrality, other than those applications of copyright law, so it is interesting to see how this argument will be settled. In the author’s opinion, the internet has become a source of commerce, and environment similar to that of an ocean, and as we know once international waters are entered we leave behind the laws of the country and are governed by the laws of the sea. The internet is an ocean, its content is international, and the providers of access to have the right to charge access of entrance, but how can they have the right to control where you navigate, how you navigate and where you go once you paid entrance. There are many ways to profit from internet commerce, the arguments made from the service providers do make sense in the regard of they helped to make the ocean possible, but they did not fill the ocean with content. So it seems that if a provider did, successfully gain the right to de-neutralize the net, it would seem obvious that such an enormous vacuum would be created that it would certainly leave vacancy available for a net-neutral provider to compete against those entities that wish to legally bottleneck the net.
The relationship between Google and Verizon appears to be almost a natural coalescence of the two sides of the debate as it is obvious that such an ideological chasm needs the cooperation of all parties involved, including the clientele. Ultimately, the shareholders and subscribers, the people who pay will decide this debate as it will be their wallet that makes the ultimate decision.