Why Mark Cuban opposes network neutrality: ‘I want there to be fast lanes’

A Q&A with Mark Cuban.

He has become one of the loudest voices against new so-called network neutrality regulations that's not coming from a telecom company's executive suite. Cuban's biggest worry: that those rules, even if well-intentioned, could end up killing innovation. The idea that the federal government should apply firm and fast "neutrality" rules to the Internet is, arguably, quickly becoming conventional wisdom. And there's nothing that Cuban dislikes more than untested conventional wisdom. We owe it to the Internet, he argues, to ask the hard questions now. "The promise of the Internet is not reruns of 'Shark Tank' or any movie or TV show," he argued. "It's that it's a platform for creativity and innovation."