[efaith]

People will talk about all sorts of things. If they talk about it but don't do it, then that's evidence that the talk is impotent, and that's even more reason not to regulate.

The relative lack of competition introduces many problems aside from net nonneutrality (which is currently a "vaporware" problem, like Duke Nukem Forever). One problem is relatively high prices and relatively low bandwidth compared to what appears technically feasible (judging by other countries). Net neutrality regulation will not kill this bird, but one stone stands a good chance of killing many birds: de-regulating the cable providers, ending their local monopolies. Provision of cable television is one of the many examples of a non-free market in the US. Other examples are medicine and banking, and in America today our major crises are in... yup, medicine and banking. Computer manufacturing is highly deregulated, as I think is clothing and (for the most part) food (though there are some subsidies and protection for certain items, like sugar and corn). There isn't, so far as I know, a computer crisis, or a clothing crisis, or a famine. The main computer crisis I remember was the Y2K bug, and that is famous for being a non-spectacular crisis, if it was a real crisis at all.