I was in rural US when several potential service providers got federal money to "connect" rural America. Where I was at, it was long distance to get dial-up from most named providers. What we got was 768k dsl "if" we were close to the highway, which I wasn't. This means to me that the service providers leveraged existing services to collect federal money; the lines were there already, they just needed a tap. Sham, scam, thank-you ma'm.
The dollars are not in rural US. Therefore, the services are not.
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I was in rural US when several potential service providers got federal money to "connect" rural America. Where I was at, it was long distance to get dial-up from most named providers. What we got was 768k dsl "if" we were close to the highway, which I wasn't. This means to me that the service providers leveraged existing services to collect federal money; the lines were there already, they just needed a tap. Sham, scam, thank-you ma'm. The dollars are not in rural US. Therefore, the services are not.
Sedition or copyright infringement. How is this filtering different than what is going on in China? (Other than the obvious -- liberty vs. profit)
Cannot get much more arcane than the credit rating for machine scoring, and don't get me started on credit reporting inconsistencies.