There is no "free" internet and never has been, you are agreeing to the terms of the ISP when you order it. Its their lines, and their servers not the public's.
"The Public" regulates & controls every single aspect of the ISP, from the license to do business, the certificate of occupancy, the income taxes, sales taxes, special fees, the imminent domain of the utility poles and underground cable, the RF radiating from the electronics, allowing large trucks to park illegally and sometimes block roadways for repairs & installs, requiring public service announcements, requiring contracts that the ISPs get their customers to sign guarantee that the customer receive fair value, the geographical areas where some ISP's have monopolies due to only one ISP being allowed access, the special funding given to ISPs in order to provide service to remote and unprofitable areas, not to mention the whole slew of special regulations that require ISPs to provide an inordinate number of sports channels and deny individual customers the ability to choose basic packages without any sports in them at all (ESPN in particular).
And also the satellites, the use of them, the regulated radio frequencies the satellites used, the licensed technology being given (instead of sold) to them, and the US subsidized mail service they use to deliver their billing.
So, if the ISPs want to get arrogant and anger the General Public, we can renegotiate everything. We can run Time Warner out of business, and construct circumstances favorable enough so that evenyour Aunt Sadie can make a profit running an ISP. We can decide anything we want, put them out of business, put someone else in business, get better service for a cheaper price and never remember they even existed 12 months later. What was the name of that cable company again? Cox-something-or-other? The one that went out of business last year. Yea, THAT one. I hated those a-holes. I'm GLAD they went out of business, and now we have Sadie's Home Entertainment as our ISP.
