A free and open internet is vital to the U.S, by throwing away net neutrality a handful of telecom giants will have full control of a vital communications and information pipeline. They will use that to their advantage and will throttle speeds and give preferential treatment to content they support. In other words the desire for money drives it, the desire for money command to the greatest amount of space on it, any real and meaningful use of the internet for the greater good is stifled by the cost of space.