First they'll lobby. If that fails, they'll sue. They'll have all kinds of bullshit reasons why this is necessary for growth, investment and infrastructure.
They have better access to legislators and regulators, as well as more sympathetic ears in the government due to having, for lack of a better term, monopoly money to throw around.
It's frustrating to say the least.
It might be the result of some local regulatory deal they have made to become a monopoly, but it isn't the result of FCC's net neutrality regulation.
Have you ever looked around the world and found a nation that has no regulations at all, or nearly so, that you want to live in? There are still places that are wild west like. Aren't really teeming with VC or good internet though.
Where do you people get this fantasy?
So, now rather than simply saying less you have to defend what's specifically wrong with each regulation as there are some you want to keep.
All you have to do is get rid of all the bad regulations, while keeping all the good regulations. Boom, issue resolved.
How do you solve that problem? It seems expensive.
Companies probably invested in building out their networks, paying government to have guaranteed access to subscribers.
If the government took all this back at once, it'd be costly, either in immediate money or just the reputation that the government holds with businesses. You want investors to be comfortable investing in future American development projects.
I agree that working towards a more competitive environment in the long term is the right thing to do, though it doesn't seem practical to do overnight, as evil as some ISPs appear to be.
What we don't need is to kill net neutrality, which would further line content providers' pockets with money they don't need. They're not a failing industry.
They're also not being so abusive as to require government takeover, in my opinion. They're not currently "poisoning" our internet, like Flint water.
There's no perfect solution for anything, public or private. We need to assess the conditions of today and decide what's the next best thing to do to increase our quality of life.
In the current landscape of monopolized ISPs, net neutrality is necessary to prevent ISP monopolies from funding service monopolies (like Netflix, Amazon, etc.).