eBay & Amazon don't believe 4-5 broadband competitors are enough competition!

The common theme of net neutrality supporters is that there is not enough competition or competitive forces to prevent discrimination.

They assert a broadband duopoly even though the evidence and data don't support their assertions. This is one of the main reasons net neutrality has had so little success in forums where substance, evidence and proof matter.  

Last week at the FTC workshop, Amazon and eBay took this competitive discussion to a whole new level of la la land.

• Both Paul Misener of Amazon and Tod Cohen of eBay agreed on their second day panel that competition won't solve this potential problem.
• Tod Cohen of eBay said that even if their were 4-5 competitors in the broadband market there would still be an incentive to discriminate. 
• Wow. Now we really know what we are up against.
• Supposed capitalists, Amazon and eBay don't believe in or trust free markets any more!
• They are saying that Congress should pass a law regardless of how much broadband competition there is or will be. 
• This is classic industrial policy think, which is defeat your future competitors in Washington, while they are still in the crib.  
• It is also more predatory than anything any broadband provider has done.
• Under their logic all duopolies should be regulated preemptively before they do the things that all businesses have deep lurking in their hearts -- make profits...
• Then the government should rugulate the Intel-AMD chip duopoly, the Microsoft operating system monopoly, the Cisco-Juniper router duopoly, the Google-Yahoo search duopoly, the Giant Foods- Safeway grocery duopoly and while they are at it they could preemptively regulate the eBay-Amazon retail ecommerce duopoly!

Amazon and eBay are no longer for free markets, but for Big Government industrial policy and European style socialism with them as the designated online national champions.