Deprivatizing the internet would provide a lot of benefits to social services. The corporations that own it have monopolized each organ of the beast, developing it to addictive perfection, often at the expense of the user's health. Social media, for example, is severely detrimental to mental health, not to mention the threat of misinformation. Allowing public entities like libraries to govern the internet would prevent the greedy motivations of capitalists from infringing on our health and privacy. All our data would be protected by laws that internet companies have so amazingly been immune from.
Perhaps most importantly, deprivatizing the internet would keep our defenses strong against cyber warfare and political manipulation. Few informative people would doubt that the success of Russia in influencing the US election of 2016 changed the course of world history. Democracy is now facing its greatest threat since fascism in the 1930s, if only because we haven't incorporated something as technologically revolutionary as the internet into the constitution. The time will come, but it isn't coming fast enough. The gridlock in American politics will likely continue unless greater regulation of the internet happens. Smart Republicans would probably lobby against that, unless they are dumb enough to keep allowing awful dictatorships influence our foreign relations. Biden has been in damage control since day one, as he has been busy trying to regain our allies, something that is significantly slowing us down.
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