City Of Houston To Offer Free Email To Residents

Don Symes writes: "The City of Houston is getting ready to roll out 'free' email and web-hosted word processing. First to libraries and fire stations(!?), poorer areas, then to those who can afford ISPs." It would be interesting to compare the cost of Internet Access Technologies' multi-million dollar contract with private ISP access, especially for the dozen other cities considering similar deals.

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Forced Charity

[Richthofen80]

What a waste of money.

I bet every hard working taxpayer in that city will examine his paystub with pride, knowing his labor paid for internet access for others. Never mind if that citizen wanted the money to pay for others or not. No, we should never consider that. only consider the poor, internet-less.

Someday, when people stop vomiting on the constitution of the United States, and the philosophy and principles it stood for, people will stop this nonsense. but for now, it's forced charity.