We Know How to Save the Internet: Towns and Cities Across America Are Doing It

[TheKentuckian]

2. aka ignore the big picture, stop making noise, stop pressuring politicians, and please focus

on the diffuse idea of going broke localities in an age of austerity, budget cuts, and privatization to build a parallel infrastructure based largely of a tiny sample of rural and undeserved areas coming up with some kind of service in small communities because the big players didn't want to make the needed investment and a few tattered relics of a different age like the TVA and the NRTC and then the thought guess is to make thousands of tiny little municipal networks compete with giant national monopolies while building from the ground up because...ROADS (which would never happen in the current environment (5 trillion dollar infrastructure deficit they seem to have slipped).

We can't get traction to deal with our crumbling water mains and sewers or collapsing bridges (or if there is anything done you'd best hold tight for the tolls and private ownership.

No, what this is suggesting is to punt and go tilt at diffuse windmills while leaving the big time politicians and big monolithic corporations alone to do what they are doing.