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Nationalize the internet.

I'm not kidding. We paid for it in the first place, and if it's such a critical piece of economic infrastructure that market intervention needs to be mitigated, the solution is to nationalize it.

How? Take the municipal broadband idea, and scale it up. It's not really hard. Net neutrality only privileges one set of multi-billion-dollar corporations over another set of multi-billion-dollar corporations. Nationalize the lot of it.

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There's a problem with that idea, which is that then the internet is at the mercy of those in congress who want to shut down the government all the time, because they won't pass a budget unless we go on a governmental starvation diet, while at the same time giving tax breaks to the rich.

Just like how policing, the military and roads stop when congress decides to shut things down

Then let's replace the government with open source AI and ML algorithms. End corruption!

Given how well that works for YouTube at the moment, I'm not so sure that's a good idea.

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