Universal Broadband Access

meehawl writes: "Wall Street Journal has this on proposed new Government regulation and tax breaks to encourage Universal Broadband Access. This idea appears to be gaining ground. Whether this becomes a public good (Universal Service, the Interstates, the USPS) or just another corporate welfare program (or perhaps a mixture of both?) remains to be seen." Another submitter sent in an interesting story about broadband in France.

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Move over Mom and Pop!

[IHateLinuxUsers]

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Re:Croatia

[Anonymous Coward]

Dude! We're behind Croatia now?
This dotcom bust is worse than I feared! :(

Simple Way to Encourage Broadband

[Boss, Pointy Haired]

Make it known how easy it is to get colossal amounts of pr0n.

That would sell it for millions of males all over the world, and end the problems of cable companies and telcos sinking under the weight of their debts.

I reckon the vast majority of existing and potential net users think the only way to get pr0n is from a web site using their credit card, and most people aren't really up for that. They've never heard of usenet, and many of those who have won't be aware of the amount of pr0n at their fingertips.

Trouble is, the cable co's and telcos can't really push this since a) it might damage their reputation - particularly if they want to be seen as providers of entertainment for all the family, and b) most pr0n in the multimedia newsgroups are rip offs of copyrighted material.

All it needs is an cable co or telco with sufficiently low moral fibre, a good legal department, an advertising campaign and some help screens.

Problem solved.

I think.

Re:Slashdot is evil

[kadehje]

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