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Broadband Rights & the Killer App of 1900
newscloud writes "Tech writer Glenn Fleishman compares the arguments against affordable, high speed, broadband Internet access in each home to arguments made against providing for common access to electricity in 1900 e.g. '...electric light is not a necessity for every member of the community. It is not the business of any one to see that I use electricity, or gas, or oil in my house, or even that I use any form of artificial light at all.' Says Fleishman, 'Electricity should go to people who had money, not hooked up willy-nilly to everyone ... Like electricity, the notion of whether broadband is an inherent right and necessity of every citizen is up for grabs in the US. Sweden and Finland have already answered the question: It's a birthright.'"
Indeed. Provide a socialist with a service, and in a week he'll be calling it a human right.
Progressivism: Parasites helping parasites to help themselves - to other people's stuff.
If you're going to talk about rural areas you shouldn't use the very developed East coast where you can't throw a stone without hitting urban sprawl as the the example of rural.
You've never been in Upstate New York, central Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Vermont or Maine have you?
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.