TFA is pretty vague, and you could interpret in two (completely conflicting) ways: 1) The internet is a human right therefore it must be taxpayer-funded so tha

TFA is pretty vague, and you could interpret in two (completely conflicting) ways: 1) The internet is a human right therefore it must be taxpayer-funded so that everybody can use it "free" of charge. That seems to be how you interpreted it, and in that case, I feel the same as you do - just because something is important doesn't mean it should be collectivized. 2) If you're going to provide internet services, you should work to make them as widely available as possible. This is the "Twitter and Facebook banning conservatives" concern. While I'm sympathetic to the "wait a minute, you can't force Twitter to let Donald Trump use their platform if they don't want", we did see this work farther down the stack when AWS banned Parler because Parler allowed Donald Trump to use it. If the author is suggesting that a distinction should be made between platforms (Twitter) and infrastructure (AWS, ISPs, routers), and the infrastructure operators ought to choose to be as agnostic as possible, on the other hand, then I absolutely agree with him.