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Broadband Internet access is a "core utility" that people need in order to participate in modern society– just like electricity, running water, and sewers, the White House said on Tuesday. A report written by the Broadband Opportunity Council, a group created earlier this year by President Obama and co-chaired by the Secretaries of Commerce and Agriculture, says that even though broadband "has steadily shifted from an optional amenity to a core utility," millions of Americans still lack high-speed Internet access.
The report cites 2013 data indicating that about 51 million Americans, or about 16 percent of the population, cannot purchase broadband access at their homes. That number may have dropped by now, but the White House says the government needs to make a bigger push to expand broadband deployment, especially in rural areas and low-income communities.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 24 2015, @09:01AM
Yeah sure, that absolutely worked in the Soviet Union. </sarcasm>
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 24 2015, @09:06AM
Nazis beat the Soviets to space. National Socialism is the master of space race.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 24 2015, @01:54PM
Dude, Iron Sky wasn't a documentary...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 24 2015, @09:26AM
When you pirate mp3's you're downloading COMMUNISM!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday September 24 2015, @03:20PM
When you breathe OXYGEN, you are practicin communism!
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.