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What didn't happen was internet being classified as a title II telecommunications service. So there's one consequence.
I was being genuine, there was a lot of doomsayers about what would come next and to my eye nothing changed.
Mobile carriers took advantage almost immediately by offering preferred services that wouldn't use your mobile data. Listening to Pandora? No problem! Listening to Napster or Tidal? That's data usage. And that's a pretty tame example.
Yes, it's a lot of subtle things like this that are anti competitive in their nature. These things may not seem all doom and gloom but the point is that without regulation there is no stopping them from doing worse.
Xfinity could start throttling streaming services like Netflix in favor of their own streaming service Peacock and there would be nothing to stop them except that it might piss off their customers.