[fjtorres]

It used to be that broadcast networks were forbidden from owning the shows they transmitted. That changed with the arrival of cable and syndication when it was shown there was more than enough capacity and demand for free competition.

That is not the case with broadband so there is both logic and precedent for broadband providers being required to divest their content businesses or vice versa.

And in fact Time Warner has been considering getting rid of their cable business for a while and Charter just offered to buy it. It may be that the road to net neutrality can be forged through mandated divestiture instead of through leaky regulation.