Oh but it is for the benefit. The fact that you and "World Alternative Media" have been so easily tricked by the flimsy free market logic used in Verizon's propaganda campaign is hilarious. Most people don't have a choice, specifically every rural community in the fucking country. The repeal of net neutrality is REALLY BAD.
"Obviously government will not legislate against themselves." Our government regulates against itself all the time. Your probably thinking of a cartoonish monarchy with an absolute top-down power structure. Here in the USA, we have an idea called the "three branches of government" which apparently you never learned about.
Of course: legislative, executive and the judicial power. Those powers are never isolated and will act taking into count personal interests from the other two powers.
In your country it seems to be common that President and the House of Representatives or Senate or whatever it is called, are ruled by different parties. When the President is from the Democrat party, then the Senate is ruled by Republicans and viceversa.
Have that make more difficult for presidents to achieve what they wanted? Like bombing countries or the Obamacare? I can see that it wasn't.
Internet access is not a public utility. If people want access to the network, they should pay for it. Providers pay some people to keep the cable operating. It is their cable. It is their choice to ask the money they wanted.