All of which are decent arguments in the abstract. Unfortunately the practical situation is that US broadband solutions outside of major urban cores are really

All of which are decent arguments in the abstract. Unfortunately the practical situation is that US broadband solutions outside of major urban cores are really bad (and even in the cities, we're essentially just barely at parity with the rest of the industrialized world). The free market, objectively, has failed us. That's why these initiative exist to begin with. Protecting the abstract market is a worthless philosophy when the effect is to impede progress.