> The FCC allows companies to throttle whatever they want, but requires all the data to be provided publicly, and they make press releases every so often specifying which companies throttle and which don't. That would solve your not knowing problem.

Ok, so we're back to regulating again? Do you want a free market or not? I don't understand how forcing companies to provide transparency data is not regulation. How is this any better in your eyes than forcing them to treat all data the same?

> In addition, in any location where a company is the sole provider, net neutrality applies, which would solve the problem of choices.

So regulation in some instances, but not in others. A known, well-established regulation is now much more complicated to a) understand and b) enforce.

> You also rule out the obvious loophole of having multiple related companies operating under different brands to get around this.

Much harder than it sounds, I believe.

Your solutions are band-aid fixes for the fact the the free market is not equipped to handle this problem. Not only that, but you are attempting to work around regulation by creating even more complicated regulations on top of the original.

When you have to jump through a tangled mess of hoops to get to a solution that has an obvious, simple answer then you are doing something wrong.

I just don't see what the big deal with regulation is. The only ones who get hurt by this are telecoms.