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You have an interesting definition of regulate. So far, there are no cases of internet providers discriminating between traffic for different content providers. Lot's of people claiming that it's happening, but each time it turns out not to be the case. For example, the situation between Netflix and Verizon. The issue wasn't that Verizon was discriminating against Netflix, but rather that normal internet bottlenecks couldn't handle the traffic during peak hours. Thus, setting up connections directly between Netflix and the big providers (Verizon, Comcast, AT&T) allowed Netflix to bypass the normal bottle necks in the internet.
People have been pointing at this so far non existing bug-a-boo of carriers discriminating against rivals for a long time as an excuse for letting government regulate the internet. Given that, so far, the internet has been growing at an incredible rate without government regulation and "Net Neutrality", I think that my vote is to leave it alone until a problem actually develops.
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