Because the industry executives are as dumb as the politicians and had no other ideas to move the needle on what is essentially a static commodity like the electricity grid in a plateauing market.

Doesn't mean it was ever a practical idea.

I've always said we can make laws when or if it actually happens. Because in the meantime we've all been getting upset and wasting time over highly impractical scenarios... and net neutrality has had a serious force and backing, which is good. But in regards to the FCC there's so many more important things to be spending our hacker concern-resources on IMO. For example the FCC (or FTC) should be looking into the millions of Indian (et al) call scammers which are wrecking havoc across the western world - which is an obvious and very real epidemic of fraud that is happening right now and very few western gov are doing anything about the millions of older people getting scammed every day. Much of which transits through legit American infrastructure and web services.

Then wake me up when a single ISP or mobile operator does anything close to what people have been claiming they will do.