The only way to have real net neutrality is via publicly-owned communications infrastructure. Otherwise the issue is just going to be ping-ponged every <political cycle> years. It can't be won in Washington. We need municipal fiber networks and radio towers.
good governance keeps slowly happening. health care has slowly gotten better, with pre-existing conditions no longer making it impossible to get health care, and, it's going to be chaos for a while, but healthcare providers having to declare prices up front (recent).
the clock is not so easily turned back on progress, in many cases.
that said, i 100% think municipalities should compete to be the best environment they can. providing municipal connectivity is an obvious, straightforward path to allowing regions to increase their competitiveness. this weird system of demanding that over-charging, weirdly controlling, rent-seeking frequently-monopolistic middlemen the are the soul providers of a base human right (connectivity) has been some weird cult shit with ever weirder overtones of control to it.
worth also remembering that it was the supreme court that decided, effectively, that all the hard long fought for work to demand net-neutrality & unbundling could be ignored for cable & fiber[1], specifically because the court believed the case being made that fiber would never get rolled out unless a monopoly was guaranteed. that... has not turned out well at all, in the last decade plus since that absurd ignorant farce of a ruling. this ruling ended competitive local exchange carriers for everything but dsl, and is widely regarded as a dumbfuck move. bad court, you really screwed up the ability for competition to happen quite thoroughly. things seem so bad that municipal communication infrastructure feels like the only possible viable option, given how egregiously badly communication infrastructure has been bungled & monopolized across the US in the wake of this granted right-to-have-no-competition.
