“Why? because the telecom lobby fought tooth and nail, and even resorted to homophobia just to prevent themselves from being regulated.”
Gigi Sohn withdrew her FCC nomination after two years of telecom lobbying, and the commission stayed deadlocked the whole time. A deadlocked FCC cannot touch net neutrality, which is exactly what Comcast, AT&T and T-Mobile paid for. The press spent those years yelling about Google and Facebook. Big Telecom won by making sure nobody was watching.