This is really the difference between a liberal and a libertarian. Liberals think that somehow the regulation will never be tainted by economic forces. Libertarians realize it is, and that the best regulation is the itchy feet of a free market where you can just choose to not do business with companies whose policies you don't like.
By the time the internet is destroyed by regulation, those advocating for its complete nationalization will have forgotten that their ideological brothers are the ones who advocated its destruction.
You have seen this happen recently with obamacare-- the government regulated the healthcare industry into the ground, and now nationalized health insurance as a "solution", which is already not working.
Thus we have the old cliche: If you're not a liberal when you're young you have no heart, if you're not a conservative when older, you have no brain.
Have a heart, protect rights, libertarians agree with you, but learn from the history. IT has never worked.
>You have seen this happen recently with obamacare-- the government regulated the healthcare industry into the ground, and now nationalized health insurance as a "solution", which is already not working.
Because single payer works really well in other countries and has done for years, a fact that libertarians like to sweep under the carpet.
Obamacare isn't about extra government regulation and it never was. It was about taking an existing oligopolistic market and making purchase mandatory in exchange for a couple of minor concessions.
>Have a heart, protect rights, libertarians agree with you, but learn from the history. IT has never worked.
Or Liberals believe that regulation tainted by economic forces is preferable to a free market in a society that already allows corporations to essentially ignore regulation by paying minuscule fines that pale in comparison to their daily profit. If consumers haven't already moved on from these corporations then maybe regulation is our only protection.
The idea that deregulation would suddenly allow good citizen corporations to destroy evil actors is laughable in most circumstances.
Economic and environmental collapse is the frequent Tragedy of the Commons consequence of unregulated human activity (markets)... Cannery Row, Easter Island, Silphium, Raphus cucullatus, extinction of N. American megafauna.
In other words, regulation is a necessary "evil" to make unsustainable behavior illegal.
> By the time the internet is destroyed by regulation
There's a huge difference between "the internet" and "the internet delivery business". There is no free market in the ISP business as it hasn't been a competitive market since the days of DSL.
The established players are quite often in favor of regulation, since it stifles up-and-comers who might out-compete them.