I think it will be. Regulations almost always do the opposite of what they say they will do. I know the existing “monopolies” aren’t ideal and the way things are done can be improved but they are better than the alternative. I would like to see more de-regulation. If you want to see innovation like the early days of the internet, you need less. With regulations demanding permission, you don’t get Bill Gates or Steve Jobs. There was an economist (I can’t remember his name) that said “the economy flourishes with permissionless innovation.” The problem is, you get a country where the media and politicians have their once a week immoral dragon we all need to kill and they all without a doubt want government to kill it. They prop up the problem as something only government can solve and do a pretty good job of convincing the masses. I’m not all out against government. I’m just against government always being the arbiter of all that is moral. They aren’t and a vast majority of the time make the problem worse.

It is indeed. Especially when the government doesn't make regulations making it nearly impossible for that startup to be created.

But but but it's not free market without net neutrality!!

I think the net neutrality regulation was like 323 pages long.

people tend to not mention, its still not free market when a monopoly is still involved. Y'all always leave that part out.

And about the first part. Most people believed there would be at least some protection for the consumer. But the verizion lawyer who now works for the FCC got it just the way they wanted it.

Answer me this. these start up companies thats now gonna come out of the wood works. How they gonna afford the extortion fee thats gonna be put on them. They all feel like they aint gonna be able to compete against the larger existing companies that can afford it. Cause, these new business's feel like they wont be able too. What do you know that they don't?

Yea,I understand that,but it won't be quite so blatant.It will just be a lot higher than somewhere a monopoly doesn't exist. Eventually the monopoly will go away but consumers may get gouged years before another company develops to compete.