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from the are-utilities-really-optional dept.
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: 1) by Murdoc on Friday September 25 2015, @05:58PM
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Friday September 25 2015, @06:09PM
There was a time I wouldn't have believed that much ignorance could be packed into a webpage so short it doesn't even scroll. I wouldn't have believed people tech oriented enough to be posting here wouldn't instantly see one or more fatal errors in such twaddle. I'm long past such childish naivete and know such things are all too common.
Again, I only pray you do not vote until you read a 101 level economics text by a non-marxist. Either Chicago School or Austrian School would suffice for this purpose of teaching the bottom line basics of economic activity. Heck, even most of the followers of Keynes aren't as ignorant of economics as what was on the linked page.