>Personally, I believe we would all be much better off if the government owned and was responsible for all the dark fiber and companies simply leased control to

>Personally, I believe we would all be much better off if the government owned and was responsible for all the dark fiber and companies simply leased control to provide services. Ack. The U.S. government is already talking about an internet "kill" switch. If they owned the infra as you suggest they wouldn't have talked about it...