> You do realize that all the problems you listed exist because of regulation or can also be solved with regulation? Maybe instead of regulating how Comcast doe

> You do realize that all the problems you listed exist because of regulation or can also be solved with regulation? Maybe instead of regulating how Comcast does business we should regulate things so it's easy to have many ISPs. I was mainly just responding to the weird idea that "anyone" who doesn't like Comcast should start their own ISP. More competition would be great, but I think it'd only occur within some kind of regulatory framework that explicitly encourages it, which I think is along the lines you're thinkging. ISPs are basically natural monopolies that require significant amounts of expensive physical plant to operate. The unregulated free market handles such situations poorly, so some kind of regulation is a necessity even if it's not the current regulatory regime.