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  • SFGbob
    SFGbob Member Posts: 33,188
    Isn’t broadband available anywhere that has cable TV?

    If you don’t have broadband today it’s not likely it’s because it’s not available to you
  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    GDS said:

    160 million Americans lack high speed terrestrial broadband. In today’s economy with the skills people need to gain that’s absolutely a collective need and puts us behind other world powers. We need to improve our infrastructure and broadband is absolutely part of that.

    You know where a lot of those people live, yes?
  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,665 Standard Supporter
    The purpose of government is to provide services, infrastructure and defense that the private sector can't or won't take on.

    If the cost of providing essentially the national highway system of the 21st Century to rural areas, so be it. If the private sector is not providing comparable 'roads' and is cherry-picking only high volume/high traffic metropolitan areas without making any attempt to upgrade the rurals, that's a problem. We? need farmers and agrarians to feed the masses in the cities. We need them to want to stay in the wheatfields and ranches growing goddamned delicious food. A national high-speed network is something The Throbber can get behind.

    Now, that said (and Jake Browning still does suck), the only caveat would be if the gubmint makes a concerted effort to track, monitor and prohibit interweb usage....that ain't cool. Treat it like a utility - and I'm 99.9% sure the power company doesn't know when I plug in my dildo phone charger, I sure as fuck don't want Big Bro watching porn with me over my cyber-shoulder.

  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,665 Standard Supporter

    Y

    The purpose of government is to provide services, infrastructure and defense that the private sector can't or won't take on.

    If the cost of providing essentially the national highway system of the 21st Century to rural areas, so be it. If the private sector is not providing comparable 'roads' and is cherry-picking only high volume/high traffic metropolitan areas without making any attempt to upgrade the rurals, that's a problem. We? need farmers and agrarians to feed the masses in the cities. We need them to want to stay in the wheatfields and ranches growing goddamned delicious food. A national high-speed network is something The Throbber can get behind.

    Now, that said (and Jake Browning still does suck), the only caveat would be if the gubmint makes a concerted effort to track, monitor and prohibit interweb usage....that ain't cool. Treat it like a utility - and I'm 99.9% sure the power company doesn't know when I plug in my dildo phone charger, I sure as fuck don't want Big Bro watching porn with me over my cyber-shoulder.

    That could never happen.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System
    Dat's why the Throbber is against those Chi-Com type shenanigans.

    But even the coeds with daddy issues living in Pullman deserve some good broadband service, don't you think?

    #webcams

  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 115,761 Founders Club
    I have access to the internets
  • GDS
    GDS Member Posts: 1,470

    Tired of these giant food companies running away with taxpayer dollars. We need to invest the office of food access to make sure every home has food.

    You realize you are describing SNAP administered by the USDA right...
  • Sledog
    Sledog Member Posts: 38,671 Standard Supporter
    GDS said:

    160 million Americans lack high speed terrestrial broadband. In today’s economy with the skills people need to gain that’s absolutely a collective need and puts us behind other world powers. We need to improve our infrastructure and broadband is absolutely part of that.

    Comrade you can not luxuries! It is hard enough to produce the bread!