Compare the internet to roads.

Imagine a not-particularly-good car manufacturer bought a lane on the highway
you take to work. It purchased the lane, and now only the cars it manufactures
can use the lane. The prices of those bad cars goes up, and their quality goes
down. Traffic in every other lane slows down, because there are fewer lanes
today than there were yesterday. The only good thing about this scenario is that
the special lane would actually be a little faster -- although no more pleasant,
since the market-warping sale requires you to drive a car you would never drive.

That one positive is gone in the Net Neutrality scenario: there is no sense in
which any "lane" would get faster. Companies would simply need to choose between
paying ISPs' ransom (making their services more expensive and worse) or not (and
being slowed to a halt or even blocked for no good reason).

The argument that it will encourage investment from ISPs is ridiculous on
multiple levels.

First, it is disingenuous to imply that *anything* could encourage current ISPs
to invest in infrastructure; they have received many subsidies from governments
at all levels, and signed contracts promising to invest, and breached those
contracts on their end, and still demanded their enforcement. They have no
interest in improving the product they provide on monopoly or duopoly terms.

Second, even if they *did* invest in infrastructure, the most this would spur
them to invest is the money they took out of the pockets of the inferior
internet companies that needed to slow down their competition because their
products weren't good enough. Every penny lost by those competitors is perfectly
inefficient waste. Every bit of innovation lost because of the way the ISPs
would warp and demolish competition is pure waste.

This is not even to mention the effect of ISP monopolies silencing speech they
disagree with, and speech critical of them. Or their own competitors, since,
remember, Netflix and Amazon compete directly with TV service providers, and
AT&T has already been breaching net neutrality with regards to its TV service.

Chairman Pai knows all of this, and even though it would infringe upoon the
freedom of speech and free competition on the internet, the political (and
financial) forces that sustain him are beholden to those ISPs who would profit.

Net Neutrality -- in its strongest form -- is an absolute necessity.