I honestly think non-technical Joe the Plumber hypothetical U.S. citizen would be against this given that Time Warner is villified & consistently ranked one of the worst companies in customer service annually. However, neither I (nor Joe) have the ear of any trade comission reviewing this, nor any power to do anything about it.

While I don't want to put forth a defeatist attitude, clearly a much more robust strategy than "write your senator/rep" must be devised. Ddos attacks at an unprecedented scale are occurring and probing all internet infrastructure. Not only is this a single point of fail, but is anti competitive, dangerous and bad for essentially everyone in the country. I think something like Calyx networks has a good small strategy, but literally short of raising a SPAC and buying a controlling interest, it seems hard to thwart.