> continually begging for the government to control and regulate the Internet Some of what government does is formalize things people come up with on their ow

> continually begging for the government to control and regulate the Internet Some of what government does is formalize things people come up with on their own and provide various institutions for reinforcing and administering those things. Property itself, for example. The relevant policy proposals where net neutrality is concerned mostly formalize the operating considerations that the "independent hacker culture of the 90s" came up with. When some private stewards of net infrastructure defect from those considerations to plans that have significant drawbacks and no plausible benefits beyond profit margins, it seems reasonable to trust institutions that are accountable to the public in a different way. "Government control" also doesn't seem like a particularly apt characterization of net neutrality policy, but who knows, maybe you also characterize the FDA as government control of what you eat and assault laws as government control of your actions.