It's a quis custodiet problem, neo-Stalinists vs. Ordoliberals (the good guys) vs. the economic royalists (Adam Smith's back-room market-fixers).
People like me who want the Net to continue to function as it did in 1997 are up against the fact that some economic entities now have got control of big enough chunks of the backbone and infrastructural ISP's that they can now start to change the rules and erect turnstiles all over the place. They're robber-barons, basically. They talk a lot of marketarian language and laissez-faire capitalism, but they're nothing of the sort. They're rent-seekers.
And so now the Stalinists in the White House see their chance to overreach everybody and impose an East German-style iron state control, like China's Golden Shield system.
Comments, people? That about sum it up?
As Conservatives surely we have the assets to start our own systems. Why haven’t we done this from the start. It is like we hardly exist in the market