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So as long as they are off the rails, may as well pile on?

So you're admitting the slippery slope argument was a fallacy?

The FCC itself already has regulatory power over the telcos and cable companies. The FCC itself earlier classified broadband as an information service to go hands-off on the companies in the beginning. It is already within the FCC's power to reclassifify those services as the telecommunications services that they are, fully bringing them within the FCC's authority.

Personally I don't like that angle. I preferred the net neutrality bill that clearly laid out what the FCC is allowed to do. But the telco lackeys in Congress stopped it.

What's really funny is that Comcast was sued over blocking P2P and successfully argued in court for it to be stayed on the grounds that the issue was subject to FCC authority, and thus the court needed to wait for the FCC to make a decision. Then the FCC did so, and Comcast claimed the FCC had no authority. It took them some serious lawyer weaseling to get around that. I read the decision. That twisted logic made my brain hurt more than Kelo.

This helps restore the Republic how?

Ensuring that corporations don't have control of the free flow of information is a good start. Promoting advances in Internet technology and commerce by not allowing the telcos to restrict them is a good thing too.

So you're admitting the slippery slope argument was a fallacy?

Not at all. The vermin infesting our FedGov always seem to be able to dig ever lower.

And as we have already discussed, giving the FedGov more power is the opposite of this.