Copy of a letter sent to U.S. Senators Byron Dorgan (D-ND) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME) by The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW), the lobbying arm of Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW), a private, non-partisan, non-profit organization.

The supposed purpose of net neutrality is to promote innovation by putting constraints on service providers that may give priority to one kind of traffic over another according to its content or what one is willing to pay for increased accessibility and faster service. Unfortunately, restricting this kind of activity would hinder further improvements and finding solutions to managing traffic flow on the Internet while increasing its value for everyone. Simply put, the Internet is doing well because competition works. Any attempt to regulate the Internet would create an unneeded layer of government bureaucracy and impose controls on a technology that has thrived precisely because regulations have been absent.

CAGW's mission is to eliminate waste, mismanagement, and inefficiency in the federal government. Founded in 1984 by the late industrialist J. Peter Grace and syndicated columnist Jack Anderson, CCAGW is the legacy of the President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control, also known as the Grace Commission.

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