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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"

    --
    Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
  3. Other People by RealityMogul · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ya know who else wanted cheap broadband - Hitler!

  4. 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.