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Is Cheap Broadband UnAmerican?
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"
Can't buy an congressman that isn't elected. Guess who can vote? Guess who can't?
Look at the bankruptcy bill. Nothing could more blatantly tell the American public that our lawmakers are only concerned with the interests of large corporations and the ultra-wealthy.
Well, that's what happens when the south and midwest allow themselves to get scared into polarizing the electon on god, gay marriage, and other shit that really don't matter one bit when it comes to putting bread on the table at the end of the day.
Then again, I guess expecting intelligence at the voting booth from people who are more than happy to throw the Constitution and Bill of Rights out the door whenever it suits them...is expecting too much.
Please help metamoderate.
Heh you are funny. The U.S. heading for a fall. Lol do you realize what the consequences of that would be. Not only do you make a WAG but you don't have any facts other than speculative real estate markets are bad....uh they have to be speculative because you don't know where people are going to want to live. Most likely MuniWIFI will happen because the issue of the laws past by the state legislature will either be brought before congress and struck down or the courts will strike it down and lastly the state voters might put in representatives that strike it down. While you make some good points about taking things away from people once they already have them you make some pretty rediculous statements also.
Sheesh.
You can tell a great deal about the character of a man by observing those who hate him.
Who the fuck has time to write out these blathering commentaries, much less read them???
Are you frustrated by the fat, stupid, lazy masses? The corrupt politicians? The greedy corporations? I'm so sorry.
Why don't you do something about it? Something useful that will make a difference and really "wake people up" and motivate them to take to the streets in revolt. Or maybe shame the lazy Americans, corrupt politicians and greedy corporate executives into seeing the error of their ways and inspire sweeping social change?
Hey, I know, why don't you write a long-winded, self-righteous, flame-baiting rant and post it on Slashdot?
Who knows, we may just bow down to your superior insight and change our ways?