Either way, I don't think they can make a debilitating decision on Bitcoin so easily. They would have to consider what their competitors are doing, as they would needlessly risk losing their customers to the other side.
I suppose it's a test of free market principles. If your current ISP decide to be dicks about it, you can switch to a slightly less dick-ish one. The problem is, I suspect they're all going to push their luck to see what they can get away with. It's likely they'll all find where that line in the sand is that most people will just about tolerate and all set the bar somewhere around there. But that means the bar will still be lower than where it is now, so good luck with that if you're American.
I know the US doesn't really "do"
other political parties, so essentially this is all the average US citizens' own dumb fault for hopping exclusively between the same two parties over and over when neither of them really give enough of a shit about this issue. Only having two parties also enables easy lobbying, so those with the most money to make from legislation like this will be making large donations so that their voices are heard over that of the people. Americans (and most other Western nations, my own included) really need to stop being deluded and pretending they still have anything remotely like Capitalism. They have Corporatism. The companies own you because they bought all the puppets you're allowed to vote for.
Ill tell you whats coming next: SOPA/PIPA by the backdoor, implemented by private parties. Remember how SOPA wanted to stick its fingers into the workings of the DNS? Well, the registrars and registries will do that so the governent neednt worry about it.
Bingo. The lobbyists have already paid for it, so it's probably going to happen one way or another. It's more a matter of "when" than "if".