>Wake up, People! The government is not here to fix your problems.
And private firms with monopoly power aren't either.
And private firms with monopoly power aren't either.
The Comcast "monopoly" is in the process of falling apart, on one side from Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu and on the other side from Google fiber, 5G wireless, mesh networking, and perhaps even the Elon musk LEO satellite Internet plan.
Ma Bell was a monopoly long before the government tried to reign it in.
The Willis Graham Act nullified the Kingsbury Commitment by which the government had tried to stop the unfettered expansion of Ma Bell, since it hadn't actually worked the government shifted to trying to regulate Ma Bell itself through the ICC (and the FCC a few years later).
And what happens to that threat when Comcast "accidentally" blocks them for an extended period of time?
"and on the other side from Google fiber, 5G wireless, mesh networking, and perhaps even the Elon musk LEO satellite Internet plan."
Which are taking their sweet ass time to find their way to consumers.
...because of government red tape.
By contrast, government intervention might well make wireless mesh networking, as a methodology for reconstructing the internet, far less plausible.
Unfortunately, we just have to be vigilant and exert our own influence to push things in a favorable direction. No one else will.