Another pro-corporate article from a "business" magazine. Great, let's take consumer protections away, and let famously dickish companies like Verizon and Comcast be even less responsible, and bigger dicks.<p>This article does not mention any downsides, like super-intrusive advertising from companies that have already done things like inject extra HTTP headers to track people (Verizon!), or less responsibility for the company with the worst customer service (Comcast). Consumers are just sheep to be fleeced in whatever way makes the most money this quarter for Comcast and Verizon. Penny wise and pound foolish as my mother used to say. Consumers will wise up and there will be an "arms race" between ISPs and their customers. We'll all lose.
This all comes from the belief that, with few exceptions, the only way citizens/consumers should affect companies operating in their countries is through purchasing decisions. United we stand, divided we fall, and all that.<p>Even for less hilariously monopolistic situations than ISP choice, this is tricky, due to the massive information asymmetry. Not to mention it rewards the less than idealistic - corporations have no qualms against buying politicians to advance laws favourable to themselves.