Internet For All in Europe

evileyetmc writes "It seems that the EU has taken the next big step in promoting the concept of Internet for All, by attempting to 'ensure that the most Web-disadvantaged groups can get online.'" From the article: "The EC has now pledged to increase broadband coverage across the continent to 90 percent by 2010. Rural areas are still underserved, according to the Commission, with about 60 percent penetration. Urban areas fare better and are already at the 90 percent mark. The EC has also committed to putting new measures in place to halve exclusion rates in skills and digital literacy by 2010. "

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Internet shouldn't be for all

[Zweideutig]

The Internet already is available to too many. It has become so affordable (sometimes even free to the end user) that we end up with the poor having the same access as other more financially responsible members of society. The problem is that Internet access gives users the ability to broadcast their ideas, literary works, etc. with minimum investment via personal web servers, blog sites, "free" hosts, etc. If "publishing" content became significantly more expensive, the ratio of commercial content to personally-created content would by higher. This is a good thing for everyone.

Re:I wonder how history will judge us

[moracity]

Are you that ignorant? "Internet For All" is just code-name for another tax Europeans will have to pay for yet another substandard service provided by the government.

Europeans will be judged as a bunch of suckers that professed freedom while simultaneously giving that freedom away, tax by tax.