Indeed. Taxpayer-funded broadband has its allure, but the risks of something going very wrong with private data are much higher, in terms of what is at stake if not in terms of odds of a breach.
The solution here is SSL everywhere, at all times. We should be just as concerned about Time Warner and Comcast having access to our private browsing.
It'd be nice to have an intermediate step between HTTP and CA-validated HTTPS. Yes, my ISP could theoretically MITM me, but it'd at least allow websites to prevent casual snooping.
