[polarix]

Have we considered crafting an agency as an information infrastructure policy steward, with the explicit intent to prohibit and prosecute any local and state regulations which would harm the proliferation of information infrastructure.

Probably this is not the FCC since its mandate is too broad. But if some such agency had the ability to force municipalities to allow private infrastructure investment, we might start to get the internet we want pretty quickly.

[thenewwazoo]

I read an argument once for nationalizing Internet infrastructure under the auspices of the US Postal Service (which is a constitutionally-mandated public utility), as the Internet serves the same public good as the post did for hundreds of years (and arguably still does). It was an audacious proposal, obviously, but I thought the idea was intriguing.