User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Battle for the Net: Internet Slowdown/@comment-24982314-20141023073606/@comment-25035274-20141024114227

Well, that's where things are at present.

What I'm personally hoping (and, eventually expecting at some point down the line whether as a result of this or future legislation) is a reclassification of the Internet as a telecom service in the United States. At present, it's still something of a luxury for most individual people, but as time goes by it's going to become more and more of a necessity, much like the telephone. For most businesses, it already is an absolute necessity.

Aside from that, it quite literally is telecommunication, so I don't entirely see how it could be qualified as anything but. Well, that is to say I don't see how outside of big business doing an awful lot of lobbying.