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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)."

3 of 502 comments (clear)

  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:Tax Dollars by squiggleslash · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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