You've confirmed my point; yes, advertiser payments can and do influence speech and competition via free newspapers. But it would be insane to say that because of that influence, we should ban the entire business model.

Yet that's what net neutrality advocates like inklesspen above are saying we should do to network providers. They want subsidized-service models like I proposed banned, simply because it could lead to some 'chilled' speech and corporate influence.

Speech and the internet are tougher than that; they don't need 5 political-party-hack lawyer-appointees in DC -- aka the FCC -- to protect them (when there's time between handing out broadcast-indecency fines).