Comcast et al have taken (literal) billions of public dollars to expand rural broadband service.

Instead of laying fiber, they used that money to change the definition of broadband.

If corporations are people we need to be able to institute the death penalty for them too.

Verizon or another telecom will buy them out and then sell it to AT&T or cut a deal with Comcast when they're done fucking it up. I'm glad they accomplished this, and I hope they prosper but I'm really pessimistic about telecom companies and their out of control government supported monopolies.

Running fiber for a small installation kind of warms the heart.

I wonder if some big ISP will roll in there find their IP blocks and start throwing copyright claims at them. Bury them in legal fees than buy them out for a pittance.