I will probably be votes down for this nor would this be read.

Regulations keep being established over and over again (with good intent). They get taken advantaged by those who can benefit from them, thus corporations and people in power. While net neutrality does have a great intention for the consumer, it is also castrating the possibility of a better product and/or service.

Of course this isn't happening since major ISPs are not really being innovative but they have been when they get pushed. We see decent examples when Google Fiber enters a city. But that shows a root problem right there. You need a big ass entity to compete with these major ISPs. Why is that?

Entry costs and current regulations. You need government permission to use public infrastructure lines. But these ISPs have lobbyist to get lawmakers to deny access. You essentially need they when town to agree with the new ISP. Sometimes the town itself creates their own. No way this will happen in a city.

So now title II creates the Internet as a utility. While I would love the lower costs, it will hurt in the long run. Prospective companies and entrepreneurs will not see potential in the market and innovative competition will die down. The infrastructure as a whole will not be able to be upgraded with the lack of funds. We see this with the power grid, water systems, and other important infrastructures. Yes the government can supply them the money to upgrade but (spoiler) it's the peoples money who are paying for it anyways.

You can look at other countries as prime examples of what we could have had. Corner stores are the ISPs for their block at low competitive prices and amazing speeds.

The Internet works because of decentralization to help route traffic at an efficient pace. It is the best invention and technology the humanity has created. Yet people want to put chains and centralize all the decision making and power. There are some awful people out there that want power and very successful at doing it. We need to not make it so hard to challenge them when we need to.

Making more rules on how to be an ISP will give more power to they very companies we all hate. They have lobbyist, they have money, they have power and they know people can be bought, put into power etc.

If you didn't pay for the fee for got g over your data cap: you would lose your access, credit score goes down, police comes to get you.

Do I think we should do a do nothing approach? No. Everyone needs start looking at the underlying or root cause of these problems. These entities are fucking huge. How did they get this way compared to other companies in other countries?

Why aren't new ISPs popping up to compete? There is such a huge market potential to make some good profits while giving consumers what they want.

One last problem I will go on about (but not the last) is the consumers. We have been dupped to think we need such extreme speeds for our daily needs. 1000 Mbits down and up? What are you doing that you need that much? Are you a house of 50 plus people? Even 100Mbits for a average family is quite a lot. Some families actually do but there are plenty of people who don't even touch that bandwidth. Gamers only need it initially to download games, otherwise they need actual speed.

What I am pointing out is people are literally giving money away to these entities. Thus reinforcing they can charge these stupid prices.

Tldr We all want the same thing, good bandwidth at fair prices with no data caps. Internet isn't censored, no privileged domains (no fast lanes), equal opportunity, etc. The difference is on how we get there. Regulations through laws can be effective if they don't have a billion amends attached on to them. There are other ways to achieve governance without laws creating a centralized point of power.