Legislation can halt a slow decline, and companies move as slowly as they need to.
Something taking 5-10-20 years to decline can often be traced back to a piece of regulation (or deregulation) that occurred a long time ago.
Legislation being repealed doesn't mean the next day everything goes to the dogs, it's often supposed to plug up a trickle, not hold back a flood.
That may or may not apply to net neutrality depending on your view. But just because things haven't gone completely gone to the dogs yet does not mean it wont in the future and that this legislation is or isn't necessary.
Exactly, these rights are going to be chipped away bit by bit, action by action, over a long period of time so that eventually it just seems like the new normal.
In the years before the repeal there were several enforcement actions of net neutrality violations[1]
While what you say is completely reasonable, there were a lot of people acting like the internet would just about shut down days after the bill was passed. There was a great deal of fear mongering which did not describe the process as a slow decline.
considering that laws don't have an expiration date, it wouldn't make sense to legislate something so proactively. legislation can be introduced at any time a problem becomes excessive.
