i know exactly what i would do, use my neighbors WI-FI, and then when that gets blocked, and I am extremely desperate, go to a starbucks, or drive around town, or maybe even McDonalds...

When you give government the power to do whatever it wants in the name of "the public good," eventually something you do will be considered "bad" or at least suspect. This is why socialism never works; eventually those in power will attempt to control absolutely everything.

I think that to say "socialism never works" is overstating it a bit. Totalitarian socialism never does, but countries like Sweden, which is miles to the left of the USA, manage to flourish -- they are democracies with a socialist bent.