“Big Tech has been enjoying a free ride on our Internet infrastructure while skipping out on the billions of dollars in costs needed to maintain and build that network,” Carr wrote. Carr made his claim that Big Tech gets a “free ride” without mentioning any of the large network projects that Big Tech companies have undertaken themselves, such as Google building data centers and direct connections to ISP networks around the world. Carr urged Congress to “enact legislation that ensures Big Tech contributes an equitable amount” toward federal broadband-deployment grants that will pay ISPs to expand networks in unserved and underserved areas. Carr also urged the FCC to raise money for the Universal Service Fund by “shifting a fair amount over to Big Tech.”

Absolute garbage.