Obama’s plan to regulate the Internet risks content control

Obama’s plan to regulate the Internet risks content control « Watchdog.org:
"Proponents of President Obama’s 332-page plan to regulate the Internet insist they oppose content control. 
They even style themselves defenders of free speech. 
But there is a very serious risk that changing the Internet from an unregulated free enterprise into a heavily-regulated public utility will lead, over time, to content control.
This risk is dismissed as a myth or even a “lie” by proponents of the president’s plan. 
A few years ago an employee of Free Press — a group founded by a Marxist college professor who famously said “the ultimate goal is to get rid of the media capitalists in the phone and cable companies and to divest them from control” — accused me of “a crackpot conspiracy” because I was concerned that economic regulation could lead to content control.
...Those concerns are historically well-founded because government regulators always have strong incentives to expand their own reach. 
Indeed, the FCC’s move to regulate the Internet should itself be viewed as Exhibit A in the agency’s hunger to increase its power.
Public utility regulation will strongly depress private investment by as much as 20 percent — or about $45 billion — over five years according to a credible bipartisan analysis. 
Taxpayers will almost certainly be forced to pay the difference via rapidly growing universal service fees, which are likely to be applied to Internet bills for the first time.  
And then calls to regulate this publicly-funded network in the “public interest” will begin."