The real problem is the infrastructure required cooperation of the public to build, using public funds and eminent domain to get these cables threaded through t

The real problem is the infrastructure required cooperation of the public to build, using public funds and eminent domain to get these cables threaded through the last mile to people's homes. Now we are told the public's interests should not be expressed through regulation but market power that doesn't exist, because no one else can replicate that infrastructure, sometimes literally by law but often just as prohibitively by the economics of fiber buildout. In my (unqualified and amateur) opinion, competition and the free market is often a fragile and unnatural state that requires active intervention to maintain. Trust-busting progressives are not in conflict with capitalism, but I think are the necessary gardeners of a wild and unruly competitive landscape.