I don't follow your reasoning that it's never existed as the FCC has fined a lot of companies for neglecting it (VoIP cases). Most attempts at creating laws we

I don't follow your reasoning that it's never existed as the FCC has fined a lot of companies for neglecting it (VoIP cases). Most attempts at creating laws were overturned that's true, except most recently in 2016 the DC circuit court affirmed the open internet rules https://www.publicknowledge.org/documents/dc-circuit-open-internet-opinion-2016 https://www.publicknowledge.org/documents/dc-circuit-open-in... which was upheld and as of now that's still on the books. Why didn't it happen sooner though is a good question, I think competition factors in as the ISP's were never as consolidated as they are now. When we used 56k modems there were a lot of ISP's, with DSL less but still a lot, now with cable and fiber there is only a handful. Part of why it didn't happen when we used DSL and before was because DSL and before was treated with the same laws as phone lines, so it functioned rather similar to ISP's being title2 now. Most of these problems began with the decision in 2002 http://transition.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Cable/News_Releases/2002/nrcb0201.html http://transition.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Cable/News_Releases/2002/n... where cable internet was regulated differently after that decision boundaries started being pushed, net neutrality laws were brought up and then struck down until finally ISP's were reclassified into title2.