And our society has much to gain. Comcast was a media distribution company. The Internet is a primary competitor. Permitting them to have such control is ins

And our society has much to gain. Comcast was a media distribution company. The Internet is a primary competitor. Permitting them to have such control is insane. If it were a regulated public utility with cost tied directly to cost of providing the service with universal access requirements like phone service, the benefit to society would be gigantic. Day 1 we could save billions by closing tons of government offices and having the workers work from home. Small businesses could host their own stuff. Connections would be synchronous and charged on use, making access dirt cheap for everybody. I researched it awhile back, whether the social benefit would outweigh the social harm by eliminating "competition" is the criteria used to decide if something should be a utility and with Internet it's a no brainer.