In the town square, the government can't remove you but a fellow citizen can just stand there and scream "NOOOOPE!" to everything you say, over and over again.

In the town square, the government can't remove you but a fellow citizen can just stand there and scream "NOOOOPE!" to everything you say, over and over again. And the local grocer is allowed to turn you away as a result of those things you were screaming in the town square earlier about their daughter. Snail mail is a great example, but the burden of proof is on those who think the Internet should work the same to justify why a model baked into federal Constitutional requirements should be used to justify de facto nationalization of private infrastructure. Now, if somebody wanted to put the tax dollars up for the federal government to build out "the people's Internet," regulated with something akin to first Amendment protections for transiting the network and rights to privacy, I certainly wouldn't be against it.