Letter to the editor

To the editor,

In regard to Gov. Bullock's mandate for net neutrality in Montana, I would like to give an example of what net neutrality does. If I were to go to a dealership, to buy a new pickup, and told the salesperson "I want one with A/C, heated seats, and a block heater for cold weather starting." The salesperson replies, "We would have to charge extra for those options and the government won't allow us to charge extra for anything so all we have is the base model."

I think the internet has been pretty good from the time that Al Gore invented it, until the present without the government regulating it. Anytime we give government authority to regulate, we give up freedom. I'd rather a private company determine content and availability on the internet subject to customers ability to vote with their money, than have government regulate content and availability by bureaucratic rule making. Net neutrality sounds a little like communism.

Jim Hendricks