You do know that without the "government granted monopolies and handouts" there never would have been an Internet in the first place, right? Even putting aside

You do know that without the "government granted monopolies and handouts" there never would have been an Internet in the first place, right? Even putting aside the research dollars, AT&T would have, among other things, happily strangled the (end user) modem in its cradle had they been allowed to.