The appeal of communally owned (be it civic or otherwise) network services keep coming back to me. Especially now as I'm reading about being a civic technologist and understanding how Big Tech can take tax dollars to run services, that money would be better spent in locally trained groups and resources. There's more of an investment in having quality services if you also HAVE to use it (and need it to get by). That seems to immediately fade with conglomerates like Microsoft and Amazon.