[Gibcarver]

So when an entire housing development gets ripped to shreds in a storm or earthquake due to poor building regulations the survivors should be thankful for the opportunity to buy Pulte's new line of less deadly abodes? Though without inspectors who knows if the claim is true.

This is the typical response by someone who cannot think for themselves because they have been raised to be dependent on the state. Why would there be no inspectors? Did I make that argument? People don't want services? no I think the people who want services should pay for them and the people who don't care can have their roof fall in. Government building inspectors sure as hell don't stop buildings from falling down any better than one hired by people interested in living there.
if you go to buy a house, ask for the inspection report. Keep shopping if it is not certified by a name you trust(people use carfax for vehicle reports because they have a positive reputation) If a builder can't sell a house because people ask to see the inspection report there is intensive to build houses to reasonable standards.

Of course, this would bite into Gerber's profit margin,

NO! this would in NO WAY cut into gerber's profit margin. The FDA is NOT the only quality assurance company! If gerber's competitor has the "tested by foodSmart" symbol and the gerber, while slightly cheaper, just uses "whatever" consumers will have a choice. The quality product will be chosen over a potentially dangerous one as long as the person can afford it, and anyone who can only afford the cheaper product can know that they are taking a risk instead of going without. I am tired of these pointless strawmans where just because it's not a centralized government performing a service the service cannot be performed.
Do you also think there would be no roads? oh god you do...poor disconnected person. I've plowed a road out of the swamp, it really is possible without steeling the money to do so from tax payers

but it would cause untold problems if actually implemented.

You did a good job of making up imaginary portents that could occur without the state(and without any sense whatsoever), but are you so blind that you can't see the REAL problems that HAVE happened and continue to happen because of reliance on state organizations?
In 1971 the US department of commerce and the consumer product safety commission required all children's pajamas to be treated with tris (2, 3-dibromopropyl) phosphate. In 1977 it was found that this chemical is a carcinogenic and causes sterility. Thousands of children got terminal skin cancer and countless thousands more were rendered sterile. the government REQUIRED them to be given that cancer, REQUIRED them to be made sterile. This was not the intention but this is what HAPPENED it can never be changed. Only swept under the rug, plenty of fingers to point inside the government so no real consequence can arise.
If a private company did the same thing they would go out of business, consumers would demand justice, and the next company would be inclined to do some testing or suffer the consequences of its predecessor.


Net neutrality should be a consumer advocacy group, not a power grab by a centralized force.