You’re describing a problem but not its solution. Enabling government regulatory powers will solve nothing except legalize the differentiation of access speeds. Look at regulatory history per se, in any industry - that’s what always happens. The declared problem that regulation is going to fix merely becomes legally formalized. The competition is still there, the different performance for different rates is still there. But with regulation, police powers are used to shut out new market entry by raising the number of requirements, just like has happened in health insurance. Net Neutrality will do nothing but raise rates, lower commonly available standards, and enable super-access for the rich through exemptions. It’s inevitable, because it’s what government DOES.
I agree that government is bad. But Comcast is no better. Your cable bill has been going up and not because of government.
I am very leery of this net-neutrality thing. I agree it seems like a government overreach. But I do not want the ISPs to have the right to throttle up and down individual web-sites I access. Remember that Xfinity is run by Comcast. They will throttle their own site higher than everyone else has access to.
Web-sites pay when they pay for the pipes from their servers to the web. We pay when we pay for the connection from the web to our homes. We should not have a middle man who just takes graft for not slowing down your web traffic. Especially when they are not adding value. They are simply paying the government for a license to a duopoly of internet service.
I want the government to stop spying on my web traffic. And I want the government to stay away from taxing the internet. I want Comcast to provide internet at different bandwidths. But not to change anything that comes over the internet, i.e. change speeds for different sites. I will decide what I want from the web.
Comcast has its own network that goes into everyone’s home. This network is were the cable channels come into your house. Its in the same wire as your Internet. Comcast can sell access to that if they wish. But they should not screw with the web.