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Of course I am serious. You are asking for me to give the government a greater say and more power with regard to the internet (and to trust liberals) and I am balking. Will this new regulatory structure of yours end anything you laid out in your first paragraph? Answer: no.Only in the land of the partisan hacks would a person arguing that regional monopolies exist (fact) and they have no interest in the free market (fact) be seen as someone who is in 'griping about big business'. In that world, giving them the power to do away with net neutrality (fact) is seen as a positive for the free market (your position) which doesn't exist in that type of business (fact).
The guy who just minutes ago didn't know why net neutrality was important, is now reverting to catch phrases about liberals. How odd for a Libertarian! As it stands, net neutrality is literally the last bastion of freedom in telecommunications. That's what we have now and it has little to do with big business and everything to do with how content is accessed by the consumer. Essentially, without it, it'd be like you paying $100 for 100 TV channels, and then being charged again per minute of viewing time. The monopolies which already exist and have no interest in the market, are who you are arguing should be left in charge of defining what content you watch and how you watch it.
Are you even serious?