2. Cable companies want the power to throttle competitor's services and, before the previous regulation was in place, they were doing exactly that in the mid-2000s in an effort to kill off the video streaming competitors.
3. None of those cable companies subsequently lost any business because of this, even though people were livid. (Indeed, Comcast is the most hated institution in the United States, ranking lower than even the IRS, and yet it's one of the most profitable businesses in the United States.. I wonder how that could be possible..
)4. Therefore, these broadband companies are, in fact, monopolies. There exists ZERO competition for broadband for most regions in the United States. Throttling traffic to favor one business (their own or the businesses that pay them the most for the advantage) is, in fact, a monopolistic practice. It cannot possibly work in a competitive market, since competitors would just not do it and grab more market share.
5. If you oppose restraining monopolies like Comcast from throttling their competitor's content, then you are defending the right of monopolies to create barriers to entry. If you defend the right of monopolies to create barriers to entry, then you oppose free markets.
