Yeah but Comcast is fleeting. The government is forever. Comcast might annoy us for a few years but the markets will innovate and flow around Comcast eventually. Turning it over to government means we're locked into the government paradigm forever. It cuts off all sorts of possibilities. I would rather put up with a short or medium term quasi-monopoly situation stemming from the imperfection of the market than to invoke gubmint and encase everything in amber till the end of time. Plus, why should we give these Marxist a-holes the satisfaction of getting over on us? Have you looked at the backgrounds of the key people (e.g. Robert McChesney) behind the push for net neutrality? They are literal Marxists and they are doing it to strike a blow against capitalism. That is their own words.
The powers behind the FCC’s muscling of the Internet
Today’s vote by a bitterly divided Federal Communications Commission that the Internet should be regulated as a public utility is the culmination of a decade-long battle by the Left. Using money from George Soros and liberal foundations that totaled at least $196 million, radical activists finally succeeded in ramming through “net neutrality,” or the idea that all data should be transmitted equally over the Internet. The final push involved unprecedented political pressure exerted by the Obama White House on FCC chairman Tom Wheeler, head of an ostensibly independent regulatory body...
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/414483/comrades-net-neutrality-john-fund
Well said! The right question is never 'is the free market perfect' but 'will government do better' - and the right answer is almost always 'BWAHAHAHA!'