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Geek Guard to the Rescue

Posted by michael on from the minutemen dept.

Ant sends a link about the Geek Guard proposal that is floating around. Supposedly technology companies would form the backbone of a fast-response technology force. But Verizon was and is part of the problem with regard to communications, not part of the solution. A lot of technically-inclined people and groups like NYC Wireless did assist in lower Manhattan after Sept. 11, and they're still helping out businesses and people with no internet/phone connections and not even an ETA from Verizon on when Verizon might get around to hooking them up. If Verizon fulfilled their Geek Guard duties with all the rapidity that they, say, install DSL lines for competing DSL providers, they would have "rescheduled" their disaster response three times and we'd have an appointment for early November right now.

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  3. hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I applaud the efforts to use technology to aid victims of disasters, but I think we should step back and realize something: technology, no matter how great it is, cannot solve social problems like September 11th. It can only come in and clean up the damage. But what if it didnt have to be like that, and we could work out social problems? *idealistic sigh*

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