I am amazed at how people arrive at the conclusions you make in your piece. The only think that is gauranteeing the type of open access to the Internet is net neutrality. And without using generalities: net neutrality establishes that the ISPs must treat all Internet traffice equally regardless of content. It is a content neutral regulation that prevents ISPs from curating, censoring, or favoring certain content over other content. So your argument is based on a premise of a regulatory regime that doesn't exist and is antithetical to the one that does.

You also make the incorrect assertion that the Internet we know and love developed without net neutrality. That is not exactly true. The FCC has always maintained that the ISPs had to treat Internet traffic equally and the ISPs did because they thought the FCC was authorized to regulate that aspect. In the early days the ISPs were also focused on building and expanding access and capacity. They weren't interested in competing with content producers so there were no issues. But now they are in direct competition and have incredible market incentives to abuse their gatekeeper roles. There are no market forces that would pevent them from abusing their regional monopolies except for net neutrality. I would rather have a governemnt agency oversseeing monopolistic companies that are annualy listed as the most hated companies in America. With the FCC we can resort to the Constitution, courts, the ballot box, and public pressure if they started going haywire and censoring content. What are you going to do if Comcast decides you have to pay as much for Netflix as you do for the cable tv subscription you are getting rid of? Are you going to drop Comcast? I doubt it because there probably is no other broadband provider in your area. If you are lucky enough to have two or more broadband providers you are one of very very few peope that do.

Two posts that will provide the reader with a accurate understanding of the issue:
https://steemit.com/politics/@digitalfirehose/how-to-re-frame-the-net-neutrality-debate
https://steemit.com/netneutrality/@matthew.allen/your-comprehensive-guide-to-why-we-should-preserve-net-neutrality