One of the biggest reasons why the internet became so big was the fact that it was UN-regulated for so long.
People could do anything. And they largely did. Notice a lot less has changed in the last couple of years, its becoming more static, and it not due to becoming a mature tech. NN may have done it's damage already as most of the internet is now concentrated among a very small set of sites (facebook, youtube, google, etc). If you can't be on those sites its hard to be seen. Those sites are turning into the internets CBS, NBC, ABC, gatekeepers.
In a lot of ways I miss the more freewheeling internet of the late 1990's. Dial up sucked, but there was far more non-liberal viewpoints on the net then. Most of those sites have been forced off, or have been marginalized, the operators struggling to even stay on.
NN would have only turned it into another lousy regulated utility. With the "customer" service of the electric, gas and phone companies (aka terrible). Also it would become more and more static as changing things would be largely prohibited by having to get permission.
Unfortunately far too much of the internet has liberal gatekeepers. All the major tech companies are run by lefties. It's amazing they didn't ruin it at the beginning.
I see a lot of parallels with the radio business. Radio at the beginning was as open as the internet was.