[MrB]

Build it, and some fascist will try to control it.

[Pearls Before Swine]

That's what I was implying. It's a lot easier for government to reap the benefits of private enterprise by coming in and directing it than to build it themselves. Unless I've been misinformed, net neutrality could be the 21st century equivalent of the 1990's CLEC frenzy.

The CLECs were the "co-located exchange operators", who under the Telecommunications Act, were given access to the operating companies switch fabric. That gave them a cheap in to telecommunications--and they proceeded to compete with the incumbent carriers using the carriers' infrastructure. It was a very exciting time for their stocks, until most of them went bankrupt.