The worst part about this is that Comcast and the like own these politicians. They donate gigantic amounts of money to their campaigns to get the laws they want passed. The laws they want passed make them legal monopolies. There is practically nothing we can do about it short of voting for someone else that isn't in the telecom's pockets.

Unfortunately nobody cares enough about this for it to be a major issue for most politicians. This will go largely unnoticed by most of the population. The only hope we have is that the telecoms start fucking up so badly it leads to widespread complaints on a whole lot of politician's desks, or that the IT industry suffers enough to warrant some serious complaints.

Basically the long and the short: we're fucked.