[colechristensen]

>The government at every level, should have no power to prohibit entities, whether government or not, from providing internet service.

Sure they should. You're being ridiculous.

The first amendment doesn't mean anyone can do anything because you can pretty easily cast a wide net and classify everything as speech.

I can't freely express myself with a firearm and shoot anybody I don't like.

Likewise, governments can regulate commerce. They're generally doing a pretty bad job when it comes to the Internet in many cases, but it's very much not a first amendment issue.

[20yrs_no_equity]

Wow. It's ridiculous to oppose the government stopping people from getting economic broadband? And you compare it to shooting people with a fire arm?

I knew that the loony left had taken over HN, but this is really around the bend.

This site use to be a place where people believed in the Internet, and believed that people hat a right to communicate.