FCC Approves Internet Subsidies for the Poor

[Frodo]

Party-line vote, as you would expect:

FCC approves Internet subsidies for the poor

By Mario Trujillo - 03/31/16 03:53 PM EDT

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[Santander]

I see that the communist Muslim Kenyan Alinskyite ACORN community organizer has brought back the Obamaphone strategy.

[Ebsy]

I see that the communist Muslim Kenyan Alinskyite ACORN community organizer has brought back the Obamaphone strategy.

Yes, Obama was hard at work creating the Lifeline program when he was 20 years old.

[dead0man]

Seems like it would be cheaper and fairly easy to just put in free WiFi hot spots in poor urban places, but I'm guessing the various ISPs (cable and phone companies) would lose money that way so we're stuck giving out subsidies forever because the American public believes in the stupid "lesser of two evils" nonsense....and hell, poor urban places aren't even that open minded.  It's a choice of racist corruption or just regular corruption.

Much harder/more expensive to do in poor rural places, and they are less important anyway.  They don't vote the right way you see.

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Seems like it would be cheaper and fairly easy to just put in free WiFi hot spots in poor urban places, but I'm guessing the various ISPs (cable and phone companies) would lose money that way so we're stuck giving out subsidies forever because the American public believes in the stupid "lesser of two evils" nonsense....and hell, poor urban places aren't even that open minded.  It's a choice of racist corruption or just regular corruption.

Much harder/more expensive to do in poor rural places, and they are less important anyway.  They don't vote the right way you see.

The two most rural states in the country are Maine and Vermont.

[dead0man]

that's great!

[pbrower2a]

The Internet costs practically nothing.

I can take my reader to the local public library and use it with freedom.