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 funchordsHelloPremium,MVM
join:2001-03-11
Yarmouth Port, MA
kudos:6 | Good, Thanks, but this tames the symptom, not the sickness [note: I consult with Free Press, but I haven't talked to anyone at Free Press about this story or program.]
Okay, real good on the target of who badly needs help: older children in middle and high school who can't do their homework or apply for scholarships due to the lack of online access. Not so great that it's only two years, given that they will need this help from seventh-through-twelfth grades.
But isn't the problem that broadband generally is priced too expensively, owing mostly to monopoly/duopoly cable and telephone providers having too little competition to tame prices naturally? Doesn't this band-aid just allow that problem to continue unsolved, hopefully with less regulatory pressure?
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 NOVA_GuyObamaCare Kills AmericansPremium
join:2002-03-05 | Ba-bing! I think we have a winner. Lower broadband prices for all and promote industry growth through encouraging competition, and everybody wins.
What's that saying-- something about a rising tide floating all boats, or something similar? | |
patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | reply to funchords
said by funchords:Okay, real good on the target of who badly needs help: older children in middle and high school who can't do their homework or apply for scholarships due to the lack of online access. Not so great that it's only two years, given that they will need this help from seventh-through-twelfth grades. Will they really use it for HW and scholarships or planing drug deals, gang fights, and downloading rap? Isn't the kid going to already have a cellphone? This plan is the same as going to the convenience store and buying cigs with food stamps. People pay the $70 cable bill, and buy $7 smokes, but they won't pay for the $40 bill for broadband. The people who don't have broadband choose to do so. Welfare broadband is just imposing your will and your ideology on others. | |
funchordsHelloPremium,MVM
join:2001-03-11
Yarmouth Port, MA
kudos:6 | said by patcat88:Will they really use it for HW and scholarships or planing drug deals, gang fights, and downloading rap? Isn't the kid going to already have a cellphone? This plan is the same as going to the convenience store and buying cigs with food stamps. People pay the $70 cable bill, and buy $7 smokes, but they won't pay for the $40 bill for broadband. The people who don't have broadband choose to do so. True to a point, but the teenagers who are aren't online aren't the household decision-makers. They're not the ones making the trade-offs that you mention above, it's the parents who are trading internet access for a pack of cigarettes.
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Robb Topolski -= funchords.com =- District of Columbia -- KJ7RL
Test your Broadband connection today! -- »measurementlab.net/ | |
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