FCC Considering Free Internet For USA 502
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CmdrTaco
from the yeah-that'll-happen dept.
from the yeah-that'll-happen dept.
jbolden writes "According to the Wall Street Journal, the FCC is considering a plan to provide free wireless internet. The plan would involve some level of filtering, but might allow adults to opt out. CTIA has argued that this business model has traditionally failed (see Slate magazine's analysis as to why)."
Re:Tax Dollars (Score:5, Funny)
Obligatory Monty Python quote:
Reg:
All right... all right... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us?
Grammar (Score:4, Funny)
nothing of use was taught to me passed elementary school
It shows :)
Re:"Free" is relative (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Tax Dollars (Score:3, Funny)
Oh, great. That's just what we need. If the USPS takes over Internet access...
Re:Tax Dollars (Score:1, Funny)
Criminals should be shot and the family should be charged for the execution just like in China.
The problem is that crazy liberals wrote this absurd manifesto called the "Bill of Rights" that prevents us from adopting China's perfect system of justice.
I'm pretty sure that over 50% of my federal income tax and SS is for worthless programs that benefit the lazy.
You're "pretty sure" because you're too lazy to look it up, right?
Free* (Score:4, Funny)
*For extremely high values of free.
Re:Free internet? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Tax Dollars (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Tax Dollars (Score:4, Funny)
When is the last time you heard of a bank burning to the ground???
Haven't they metaphorically been doing this for the past few months?