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European Union Will Fund Public Wifi (axios.com)

Posted by msmash on from the connectivity-for-all dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The European Union is moving towards getting free public wifi into unconnected locations around the bloc. A new agreement will provide 120 million euros to "fund equipment for public free Wi-Fi services in 6,000 to 8,000 municipalities" across the E.U.

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  1. Re: How do you plan to pay for this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Dummies who cry free market about these things forget about natural monopolies. We used to understand that you had to regulate natural monopolies, but now we are too stupid to understand that certain businesses aren't really good candidates for the free market with telecom and the internet perfect examples of businesses that should be regulated monopolies

  2. Re:How do you plan to pay for this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Subnationalizing the states was the price of freedom from slavery and disagreeing is a hate crime.

    And I will disagree. Slavery was already dying. Whites enslaving blacks was the final breath of slavery and a short part of overall slavery. Most of the racial problems we have today are because of the last 200 years of slavery where slave traders tried to make people think blacks were inferior to whites to try to keep slavery from fully dying. Before that any race could be a slave owner and any race could be a slave. Racism only became a part of slavery at the tail end of slavery when it was already on it's way out.

    p.s. A good book to read about slavery and racism is "Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry". It not only explains the root of whites enslaving blacks but it also shows what real racism looks like.