> Effectively, it is in an excellent position to leverage its ISP monopoly to create a massive extortion racket to content providers. And the magical free market isn't going to push back against Comcast, because the experience for the end-user has not noticeably suffered.

So in the end, being an internet provider is massively profitable, and maybe another company decides to jump into the space to take a share of the highly profitable market. Maybe two companies, maybe three. Suddenly there are choices, these companies are competing on price, service, bandwidth, etc. for customers and everyone wins, all at the price of Mom's free blog being served 1/10th of a second slower in the interim.

Sounds good to me.