It is based on a faulty premise that internet content and distribution regulation should be run by unelected govt bureaucrats.

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It will create unintended consequences.

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It ignores the fact that any monopolies or duopolies are created by govt in the first place. You think running an ISP is technically hard? Its not. The hard part is dealing with

1: regulations
2: Taxpayer subsidized telecoms
3: Politically connected/subsidized telecoms that get eminent domain going in their favor, and have govt granted control over public infrastructure.

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The internet has worked because it has been a self-generating system, and not an exogenous order - and by transforming it into such we forever abandon the very principles that has allowed it to work.

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Why should we accept telecom monopolies and grant them permanent rent-seeking status as an entrenched entity, instead of leveling the playing field while we still can?

The very fact that "Net Neutrality" is even an "Issue" in of itself shows that we are focusing on the wrong problem. The question we should instead have been asking is "How can we level the playing field?"

If Ma Bell decides to squelch some service or entity for one reason or another, why would a customer stay with them? The answer in this case is obvious - because Ma Bell has a monopoly. Which begs the question "Why does Ma Bell have a monopoly" and following that "How can we make sure Ma Bell isnt able to maintain a monopoly"

Instead of addressing the fundamental issues, many people seem to want to start up yet another game of regulatory whack-a-mole , give the telecoms a small lobbying target to co-opt (FCC) , and pray that somehow the FCC can micromanage the internet into producing good results.

Objectively speaking, the latter approach is insane. The entire monopoly issue can be easily solved by govt getting out of bed with the massive telecoms, and ensuring equal opportunity to infrastructure. This is a long-term solution, that would not be dependent on the politics of a particular day.

Instead , people claiming to want the internet to have freedom want to embark on a Quixotic quest of regulatory micromanagement while accepting the monopolistic paradigm.

For who could be free when every other man's humour might domineer over him? - John Locke (2nd Treatise, sect 57)