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.
Correct.
More importantly, for your item # 1:
It’s not just “liberals” that want it and push for it.
It’s Facebook, Google, YouTube (Google), WaPo, NYT etc. It’s the pantheon of all liberal propaganda. Enemies of the American people.
It can substantially reduce their costs while forcing every carrier to allow free access...not a single dropped bit for any reason...under threat of penalty.
All the while they go about slaying their competitors.
Mega Bump!