Great idea. They've taken advantage of cheap publicily subsidized infrastructure for far too long while making obscene profits. This is a great idea, as long as the infrastructure itself and the operator/service provider is collectivized as well.

Can we collectivize big tech while we're at it?

So ISPs are charging an arm and a leg, but they're saying others should pay? I'd love to be in a business where someone else pays for my business expenses and I keep the revenue.

I'm not from the states so I don't have no skin in the game, but correct me if I'm wrong, weren't ISPs responsible for upgrading the country's network, given a large amount of money, and just sat on their asses or something? I remember something to that effect.

This type of logic only makes sense in the case of public utilities, not privately owned companies.

What do they think we're paying for? I don't see how the non-amortized costs (ie, non-infrastructure-buildout costs) could ever approach the amount they pull in revenue. This also ignores the fact that the telcos have gotten somewhere in the double-digit billions of dollars (iirc, around $40B) in taxpayer money to build out fiber infrastructure, that they never delivered on. What are they using this money for? What are they using their subscription revenue for?