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Dial-Up Users "Don't Want Broadband"
Barence writes "The majority of dial-up Internet users say they don't want to upgrade their connection to broadband, according to a new study in the US. The Pew Internet & American Life research found that 62% of dial-up users had no interest in upgrading to a high-speed connection." (CNN is carrying the AP's story on the study, too.)
They only think they don't need it. Dialup usually ties up the phone while you use it and with sites becoming more graphic intensive that means you'll be on even longer tying up the phone or buying a second line and for that kinda money you might as well have broadband.
People who don't have broadband don't really want to be on the internet or don't value your time because so much of it is wasted farting about on a dialup modem.
the essence of a paternalistic (and condescending) view
It is appropriate to be paternalistic when speaking to little children or dial-up users who think they don't need broadband.
As broadband becomes more essential to daily life, maybe this will inspire more people to move out of buttfuck and to civilization.
Everyone, including the large urban majority, pays for the staggeringly disproportionate infrastructure costs so a few rural people can live their cute little lives. I'm sick of it.
Force rural people to pay their own way for everything, including millions to run cable to five people, if they are so attached to fucking their sheep. I have no sympathy.