Abstract
In late February, in a big victory for Net neutrality advocates, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted to reclassify broadband Internet as a telecommunications service subject to regulations like those used in the telephone industry. AT&T, Verizon, and other opponents of reclassification argued, unsuccessfully, that phone networks are a poor analogy for understanding the Internet. But what is the right analogy? Internet access is a complex tangle of technical, political, and commercial issues, and people have long tried to make it comprehensible through comparisons to other, more familiar systems. As a result, Net neutrality analogies have also become a powerful and effective rhetorical tool for rallying political action.
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