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>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.

Oh god...

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.

But is the behavior really unsustainable when it's a company with the size and power of Wal-Mart?

> 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.