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Low-income plans
Love to means-test fucking everything. You can’t just have $15/mo internet. You have to plead poverty for fear of middle class or (god forbid) rich people getting a basic utility at a sensible price.
Nevermind how means testing inevitably creates these legal hurdles for administrators to leap over. The act of means testing is inevitably what businesses target in an effort to avoid compliance. “Oh! It’s too hard to tell who qualifies! Undo burden! Undo burden!” It wouldn’t be a burden if the ISP was limited to a universal flat rate. It wouldn’t be a burden if municipalities owned and operated their own independent flat-rate internet service as a public utility.
The funniest (or saddest?) part of all this is that $15 is considered “low”. It’s still pretty high for something so vital (and tbf I’d much rather see a requirement for like 5-10 Mbps at $5 or so; you don’t need much bandwidth for meaningful, very useful service).
It’s crazy how many people equate Mbps latency. Broadband companies spread this lie that faster is better.
You can game lag free and have VoIP calls with zero interruption on 5Mbps.
Only thing more Mbps helps with is downloading larger files faster.
Also helps with streaming and many, many other services
Having said that, though, yeah… 99% of the population doesn’t need more than 10Mbit / person
I understand the argument but there is far less issues and costs associated with fibre connections which are virtually limitless in terms of speed - theoretical limits apply butbwe are still seeing new equipment at either ends that allow for multiple tbps speeds.
Making the connection slower doesn’t magically make it cheaper.
Lol Internet Essentials is $10 for 50Mbps (if you qualify, that is)
I not disagreeing but $15 would still put it at one of the cheapest if not the cheapest vital service. I’m not sure you could get any other utility for much lower than that.
1 Mbit/s should be free.
The blue states always have the cool stuff!
Just a coincidence, I’m sure.
And red states are welfare states with crabs in a bucket mentality
“We can’t afford rent, bread and Internet, what happened, fuck socialism I guess???”
– standard American who voted for the billionaire party
“Oh, yeah? Well at least we passed laws requiring us to identity ourselves if we wanna use porn, lol! You can keep your cheap broadband internet! Ha!” — Red States
Why would you need broadband internet if it isn’t for porn in the first place?
Wish I hadn’t built my life in the red hellhole
Sunk cost fallacy… It might be worth moving in the long run. It’s far from perfect, but I know that the difference between living in a solid blue state, vs a purple state, is huge. I can’t even imagine coming from a deep red state. Shit would be like entering the Promised Land.
Which is sad, because blue states have their fair share of issues.
What about me? When I was born Ohio is what we’d now call blue. I say it that way because when I was born, states didn’t have colors. In fact in 1980 when reagan won, the map he won was blue. Today that wouldn’t make sense, so you get my point.
By the time I was a teenager Ohio had become a swing state.
And now it’s red.
Where the fuck is my blue ohio I was brought up in???
I used to live in Alberta and I’m still reeling from that.
Bret Hart still running around up there complaing about goldberg?
He’s still bitter about the Montreal Screwjob
Something something freedom something? *
* Offer not valid in all 50 states, void where prohibited
I wish California would implement this law as well.
