Look for the YouTube video of Obama at the Google campus and see what an intelligent politician says about technology and net access. Did you complain when telcos were subsidized billions to get broad band into more homes and then they failed the last mile?
What are you talking about? Far more people have broadband now than ever before due solely to the investments made by private companies.
This isn't the late 1990s anymore. Just about anyplace reasonably close to civilization can get broadband. -- Reptiles Are Cuddly And Pretty