Unfortunately many of us are still screwed.
We may have the option of internet tv like Amazon, Hulu, or Netflix, but that still requires an internet connection. An internet connection provided by the very cable company (in my case Comcast) that is screwing us over in the first place. Sure we COULD ditch the box for ITV only programming, but the cable company will just make up for the loss by increasing our internet bills to compensate.
"Just switch providers!" is a sadly laughable joke. There *aren't any*. In my town there's AT&T Uverse, but that's only if I'm willing to pay AT&T to upgrade their own infrastructure to be able to deliver as their ads promise. There's DirectTV or Dish, but those require me to convince my neighbors to cut down their trees so I can get a bead on the horizon to find that satelite. There's satelite but that requires the cutting down of someone else's trees. There's cellular based internet if I suddenly find myself so filthy stinking rich that paying by the byte is no longer a problem. Or there's Comcast. There's no other cable company in town, Comcast has no viable competition in this town (or anywhere else), so if I want a level of service the FCC considers "broadband" then I've got exactly *one* option: Comcast.
In order to get any form of viable competition I'd have to move to a city where there's FibreOptic available from at least one other company (Google, municipal, etc) so that the citizens have a chance in hell of telling any provider "Shape up or I'm switching." With no ability to switch there's no reason for the entrenched provider to change.
So the FCC needs to grow a spine, DEMAND the competition that we deserve, & then take the fat cat fuckers to court to enforce it. YES the government is essentially bought & paid for by those fat cats, but SOMETIMES we get someone worth their salt to stand up FOR us rather than against us. In this case it's Wheeler. I hope he can get these laws passed to force Comcast & their ilk to Do The Right Thing.
Failing that I hope a very large meteor suddenly turns Comcast HQ into a smoking, glassy, molten crater.