content: So... see here: http://newnetworks.com/ShortSCANDALSummary.htm I would TL;DR: but it's a (slightly long) Voat post's length at most. Just read it.  The book it references is quite a bit longer and part of a trilogy. This isn't correcting you. It's pointing out how they most certainly should be public property.  The telecommunications situation in the US is fucked and has been for a while.