All the while the FCC was grilled yesterday for trying to shut down free speech. Make it make sense.

Politicians want power over people in the country, but also internet technology is one of the only things the US is best at, and so we don't want the entire world dividing into separate internet silos.

(The other things we're best at is having a huge military and having legally protected free speech, which is ironically being weakened, as you say.)