Network neutrality and panic

Reading Douglas A. Hass' 2008 paper on network neutrality was an interesting experience for me. I've never been a big fan of government regulation anyway (I see it as a last resort), but they made some interesting arguments regarding history; there isn't any to justify the need for net neutrality.

I had never thought about AOL in the context of them being the very monopolistic entity that proponents of net neutrality regulation fear, but this is due to the fact that they failed as that entity! At least up to this point, ISPs that have gotten "too big for their britches" have had huge losses in their customer base (quite a few million in AOL's case), indicating that competition is alive, well, and keeping ISPs from abusing their customers. Until that changes for some reason, I don't see any need to incur the monetary and other costs of increased government regulation on the Internet.