[HiTech RedNeck]

Pie from the sky plan.

I have to give Bummer an honorable mention for imagination in this one, but that’s it. I think Republicans are not stick-in-the-muds and would like to do something similar, but know the price is vastly too large for what would be had. There’s already been a shakeout in the private sector of internet services. As the availability of cable and DSL has grown, we see fewer providers who support those little dishes that adorned many housetops in urban areas a decade ago.

[Cacique]

This has nothing to do with tech. It has to do with control. Lysenko knew nothing of biology, but his views fit with Stalin's dogma and doctrine and the need to control. Like health care, the objective is to get rid of the competition and have a government monopoly. Why pay for internet when govt. will give it away for free? Thus ISP's will go out of business or go into something else. Once the govt. owns it they can regulate it completely, never mind net neutrality. The oligarchy has been looking for a way to shut down or control the internet since the very beginning.

The internet allows the spread of ideas, the state doesn't like ideas they don't spread. To quote Stalin; "ideas are more dangerous than guns. We don't let the people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?"