But the free market is the answer to everything, right?

Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things:

"Clay Shirky says:

From Boston.com today:

'AT&T Inc. and BellSouth Corp. are lobbying Capitol Hill for the right to create a two-tiered Internet, where the telecom carriers' own Internet services would be transmitted faster and more efficiently than those of their competitors.'

Translation: 'We like everything about the internet, except the way it keeps us from locking out the competition, so we want something just like the net, except less useful to the user, but with more pricing power for us.'"