$82 million goes to Comcast

Comcast fires 20% of staff

Delays rollout by 3-years

Asks for more funding to complete project

Ding ding ding. I’ll gladly open a holding company and promise to bring high speed internet to the masses. All I need is $82M in funding from the government. Then I’ll delay the installation by 20 years, lay off staff in those 20 years, give myself an $82M bonus, then say I need more funding with a renewed promise to bring high speed internet to the masses. Lather, rinse, repeat. It’s a tale that has been going for as long as ISPs have existed.

then you want a congress that will pass a bill and approve that

Free, and run by the government sounds like ‘highly regulated and restricted’ to me. Like they would have any reservations on sucking up everyone’s data.

Edit: Downvote me all you want, but remember Snowden and the NSA.