Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg compares network neutrality to civil rights laws

Asked about network neutrality, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg turned to sales of apples -- the kind you eat -- to explain his support for the idea. He noted that it would be illegal to sell "apples to white men for a dollar" while selling apples "to black women for two dollars. ... Net neutrality is kind of like that. If the person selling the apples wants to donate to a food bank for free," he continued, "there’s no laws against that."

Zuckerberg's thoughts on net neutrality came amid a wide-ranging discussion at Vanity Fair magazine’s annual New Establishment Summit. Facebook’s founder and chief executive said that although smartphones are the central means of electronic communication now, they’re "not the end of the line. There are reasons to believe the next major computing platform is going to be more connected to vision."