There is a simple axiom about regulation. The more regulation, the higher the price becomes due to less competition. There are costs that are attached to compliance and they must be passed on to the customers or the company will not survive.
Here is an article from March 2016 that discusses that.
“After 1 Year, the Effects of the Net Neutrality Regulations”
http://dailysignal.com/2016/03/02/after-1-year-the-effects-of-the-net-neutrality-regulations/
In my opinion, the biggest trap in business today is for Lobbyists to buy politicians, write the regulations for them and the regulations prevent competition to function.
Long and short. Freedom Works. Open Competition with few and small barriers to new competition Works.
I can name you a large number of entire industries that have stagnated and/or died because of heavy government regulation. (Fascism is an evil term, but descriptive)
I view it from four different ways:
1.) Liberals want it and push it. That is a non-starter.
2.) If I own internet infrastructure and there is no monetary benefit directly to me to upgrade/beef up that infrastructure when I can use other people’s infrastructure, why would I do it? For the good of “the people”? It is the tragedy of the commons in an Internet age.
3.) Any bureaucratic overhead imposed by government is a barnacle on the hull of progress in an industry. Any industry. If we want Internet access to widen and increase in performance, let capitalist money drive it. You want it to slow, break down, stagnate, and be subject to censorship, let in the government.
4.) Government should have no voice, none whatsoever in what network traffic goes where, because that is the first step in a long slippery slope of political censorship.