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FCC Considering Free Internet For USA

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the yeah-that'll-happen dept.

jbolden writes "According to the Wall Street Journal, the FCC is considering a plan to provide free wireless internet. The plan would involve some level of filtering, but might allow adults to opt out. CTIA has argued that this business model has traditionally failed (see Slate magazine's analysis as to why)."

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  1. Re:Tax Dollars by viking099 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Obligatory Monty Python quote:
    Reg:
            All right... all right... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us?

  2. Grammar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    nothing of use was taught to me passed elementary school

    It shows :)

  3. Re:"Free" is relative by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    In Soviet Russia, Internet checks you.

  4. Re:Tax Dollars by geobeck · · Score: 2, Funny

    Who thinks it would be a good idea to have a public wireless internet managed by a division of the US Postal service...?

    Oh, great. That's just what we need. If the USPS takes over Internet access...

    • E-mail will take 7-10 days to reach you
    • You'll have to go to the nearest postal outlet to pick up any attachment larger than 64k
    • I'll have to spend hours convincing my (blonde) secretary not to stick stamps on her monitor--AGAIN!
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  5. Re:Tax Dollars by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Criminals should be shot and the family should be charged for the execution just like in China.

    The problem is that crazy liberals wrote this absurd manifesto called the "Bill of Rights" that prevents us from adopting China's perfect system of justice.

    I'm pretty sure that over 50% of my federal income tax and SS is for worthless programs that benefit the lazy.

    You're "pretty sure" because you're too lazy to look it up, right?

  6. Free* by mosb1000 · · Score: 3, Funny

    *For extremely high values of free.

  7. Re:Free internet? by spartacus_prime · · Score: 1, Funny

    Probably only through binoculars.

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  8. Re:Tax Dollars by squiggleslash · · Score: 4, Funny

    Geez, it was two thousand years ago! Will you let it go already?

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  9. Re:Tax Dollars by edmicman · · Score: 3, Funny

    When is the last time you heard of a bank burning to the ground???

    Haven't they metaphorically been doing this for the past few months?