We need someone willing to fight fire with fire and John Stewart isn’t it.

Assuming the law is written around the paradigm of HTTP.

I have a gen x cousin that still rants about millennials, quickly becoming the new Facebook uncle

this is eventually going to restore the internet to the 1990s on alternate protocols like Gopher or breathe new life into IRC and Newsgroups.

Correct, but I was hypothesizing that when they try to do the same things in other cities as suggested in other comments, all the people that were vocal about state;s rights on other topics will likely be silent.

State’s rights until it isn’t.

Implying if Democrats won, they wouldn’t just be letting all this stuff happen anyway for “civility” or whatever bullshit excuse they can come up with for refusing to wield power and actually help people.

Politicians are not entitled to votes, they earn votes. This is completely on the DNC for nominating another loser candidate with a platform of “I’m not Trump.” If we keep holding our nose and voting for the lesser evil they have no reason to change. Our votes are our only leverage.