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The fact that local phone calls in most countries outside of the US are *not* free probably has a lot to do with the fact that Internet use is lagging in all those countries. I pay quite a lot to my friendly local telcom monopoly for every online minute & have to restrict use as much as possible to evenings and weekends when the rates are cheaper. How's that for a way to build a thriving online economy?
it seems odd that I would have such a rigorous set of factory defaults in that image I don't think it's odd at all -- in fact I suspect almost everyone else posting here, including me, has a similar set of defaults. I also suspect you should add "American" to your "white, twenty-something male" -- am I right? As someone who's only one of the above (I won't say which), I've noticed that it is the privilege of the powerful to assume that their own image=human default setting. The powerful are mostly (note not all) white males; they control a massive chunk of global cultural output; our own assumptions are heavily influenced by that global cultural output; so it's no suprise that most us end with the same defaults -- although few are able to notice it and I admire those who do, especially when they're close to "default" themselves. I'm particularly struck by the fact that almost *everyone* who's been posting in this discussion, with a few noble exceptions, has assumed that this is an American forum full of American people -- lots of discussion about race and gender diversity, but a big blind spot about national/cultural diversity. On the internet, what's a "foreigner"? Just a thought.
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The fact that local phone calls in most countries outside of the US are *not* free probably has a lot to do with the fact that Internet use is lagging in all those countries. I pay quite a lot to my friendly local telcom monopoly for every online minute & have to restrict use as much as possible to evenings and weekends when the rates are cheaper. How's that for a way to build a thriving online economy?
it seems odd that I would have such a rigorous set of factory defaults in that image I don't think it's odd at all -- in fact I suspect almost everyone else posting here, including me, has a similar set of defaults. I also suspect you should add "American" to your "white, twenty-something male" -- am I right? As someone who's only one of the above (I won't say which), I've noticed that it is the privilege of the powerful to assume that their own image=human default setting. The powerful are mostly (note not all) white males; they control a massive chunk of global cultural output; our own assumptions are heavily influenced by that global cultural output; so it's no suprise that most us end with the same defaults -- although few are able to notice it and I admire those who do, especially when they're close to "default" themselves. I'm particularly struck by the fact that almost *everyone* who's been posting in this discussion, with a few noble exceptions, has assumed that this is an American forum full of American people -- lots of discussion about race and gender diversity, but a big blind spot about national/cultural diversity. On the internet, what's a "foreigner"? Just a thought.