To all the “conservatives” and “constitutionalists” who are crapping their pants right now, consider this....
The Constitution of the U.S. has 18 specifically enumerated rights and responsibilities of the federal government. Among these are levying taxes, immigration and naturalization AND......
ESTABLISHMENT OF POST OFFICES AND POST ROADS
While I do think that it is WAY too far of a jump to say “regulating interstate commerce” means limiting what a farmer is allowed to grow or allowing the establishment of the ATF, I think it is perfectly reasonable to say that the 21st century 5G network is just the natural modern extension of the 18th century postal system and could reasonably be though of as a constitutional responsibility of the federal government.
Yes. The U.S. Army developed the Internet as it began. It would have been a tough communications network and far faster today for everyone, if the crooks hadn’t weakened it and left the remnants of it as trash all over the place.
The government always uses contractors, as it did with DARPA and the Net. It can lay down some design and maintenance rules for companies to follow for national security, or it can allow the big corporations to build something exclusively for the socialist political class while leaving dead trash throughout the countryside (as it did with the landline Internet with tiny inverters in junctions, weak substitutes for trunks, then abandonment).
Anyone for a round of Rollerball?