Broadband access is very much a freedom thing if Comcast is your only option.<p>I live in one of America&#x27;s wealthiest cities and the undisputed tech capital of the east coast, yet finding a decent ISP is difficult bordering on impossible.<p>There&#x27;s exactly one good ISP in my city called netBlazr, but they don&#x27;t service my neighborhood. So we get Comcast instead: bandwidth rates approaching a tenth of advertised speeds, outright throttling for certain services, cheap hardware with limited firmware, ubiquitous surveillance, and no legal recourse at all.<p>Freedom.