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Is Cheap Broadband UnAmerican?

Posted by Zonk on from the commie-pinkos! dept.

Reader Ant wrote to mention the article entitled Is Cheap Broadband UnAmerican? The author argues that media companies are systematically ruining the MuniWiFi efforts across the country, likening the community initiatives to a form of communism. From the article: "Telecommunications giants have mobilized a well-funded army of coin-operated think tanks, pliant legislators and lazy journalists to protect their Internet fiefdoms from these municipal internet initiatives, painting them as an affront to American innovation and free enterprise"

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  1. Is cheap broadband unAmerican? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why the hell not, everything else I like seems to be.

  2. Or, as we said back in the fifties by gowen · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Have you no sense of TCP/IP, Sir?
    At long last, have you left no sense of TCP/IP"

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  3. Yes by Apreche · · Score: 2, Funny

    Cheap broadband is as unamerican as freedom.

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  4. Other People by RealityMogul · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ya know who else wanted cheap broadband - Hitler!

  5. Re:Free stuff isn't, freedom is! by ajs · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Americans are lazy, undereducated about technology, and just don't give a shit about making their own lives better. As long as it is easy and they are told it's acceptable they are good to go."

    That's not just wrong, I find that statement morally repugnant! I'm going to write my congressman about this! ... well, maybe tomorrow, there's something good on tonight that I want to watch.

  6. Re:What else would they oppose? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    Maybe they are against having public libraries, also? And streetlights? What about public roads, are those manifestations of communism too?
    Don't forget the standing army. .. How dare they defend all Americans equally without reference to their ability to pay. It's Communism, I tell you! Communism!
  7. Re:is poisoning our language unAmerican? by shrubya · · Score: 2, Funny

    You're obviously a dirty terrorist-loving traitor. Why don't you take your so-called wireless communism and go back to Iran with all of your freedom-hating pals?

  8. Broadband Article on MediaCitizen by Mediacitizen · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hi all. I actually wrote that article for my blog MediaCitizen. How it ended up on Progressive Trail is beyond me. I submitted it to SlashDot but, as with everything else I have written it too was rejected. hmmmmmm . . . . I'm pleased your reading it now and providing intelligent repartee. You might be interested in my sock puppet report there as well. We have just published a separate report debunking the lies of these coin-operated think tanks at Free Press. Check it out.

  9. Re:Free stuff isn't, freedom is! by Clay+Pigeon+-TPF-VS- · · Score: 2, Funny

    Brave New World was on Sci-Fi a few nights ago. No, we don't live in it right now, but our corporation-obsessed government is definatley trending that way.

    I won't believe it until I get my free soma!

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  10. Re:Co-Ops by sysadmn · · Score: 2, Funny

    Canada is a country? Wow, I thought they were a state or territory or something, like Puerto Rico. Do they export anything other than comedians and singers?

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  11. Re:Co-Ops by Anonymous+Luddite · · Score: 2, Funny

    >> Do they export anything other than comedians and singers?

    Yes, and soon my friend. Check out the plan

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