> It is government control and government regulation
  > that is the perpetrator here.

I think that the implication is that "Big Content" is lobbying for the government control/regulation that they want, and getting it. That is why the finger is being pointed at "Big Content." 'Legislation for sale' is just a conduit of 'bad things,' the entity purchasing said bad legislation is that source.

  > The ISPs rolled over because they are dependent
  > on government permission to operate

It would seem more likely that they were afraid of the government enacting legislation that forced them to do something similar with 'copyright notices,' so they decided that self-regulation was better then government-regulation. (Notice that I didn't use the word censorship, which is out of place in this discussion)