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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, @09:40PM
No one "tells" people what to produce except the people themselves through Energy Accountung. EA figures out how much people are consuming, then uses that data to determine how much of those things to make for the next cycle. Simple as that. It's giving people exactly what they want. Centralizing technical decisions like this in no way infringes on anyone's freedoms, it's the only way to achieve the kind of efficiency you nees to create abundance.