More Companies Complain to FCC About Free Mobile Internet

that is true too but these new text books are coming with software that requires more of an interactive learning experience that may require the kids to use the web...

P.S...I was fortunate to be a "HAVES"

well if the people on welfare would get up and get a job (i know the market is slow now) and didnt have so many kids they cant afford we wouldnt have this problem. honestly, there should be requirements to having children. their are requirements for owning a gun, but your gonna put the lives of some innocent child in the hands of some crackhead just because the has a f*ckin p*ssy thats straight BS!!

and if your one of the haves probably means you didnt have to work for much, so you dont understand what its like. i cant get a scholorship for college because my parents make too much money. and where is the 'white college fund' because u have the latin, spanish, indian, black, asian, and im sure more college funds.

Well according to the Welfare reform act passed by Congress and Clinton, to continue to get welfare benefits you have to have a job working a certain amount of hours or be in a job-education training program. Also, I can guarantee you that the majority of poor or lower income people are not "crackheads" but hard working individuals. There is a very small percentage of people who take advantage of the system just like a small percentage of wealthy people with their taxes and big corporations. I think that the Welfare Reform Act has been a huge success because if you want to receive benefits you either have to work OR get job training. As far as your White Scholarship Fund goes, the main reason you have a Negro Scholarship Fund or a Latin ...
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not all people possess the innate ability to rise up in society. welfare has a lot of faults, but people who go scream "communism" every time there is a subsidized program are awfully bigoted and are really guilty of the same type of black-and-white categorization that the news "interpreters" we see nightly on cable news networks are

You're quite welcome. 😉

You definitely have a point BUT he could have said that without Lafonda. We all know exactly where he was going with the statement as to try to insinuate "African Americans" when there are more whites and many other races who enjoy the benefits of welfare. I do think the government should drop this demand that companies should pick up the tab and if they want to offer free internet than fine. Lets not kid ourselves, being computer literate and having access to the world wide web is essential these days for everyone to succeed. Many blue collar jobs are leaving this country so the more educated and prepared we have the children of our country, then the better off this place will be. Equal access is very important but I do not think the g...
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I do agree with you about many things you've stated. Being computer literate is a must for any decent job now days BUT as stated in an above post, there are libraries that charge nothing for internet access. Instead of kids playing outside until dark they could be at a library using the FREE internet. So there for I believe that there is no need for the government to step in and provide free internet using our tax dollars when there are starving children in the U.S. I'd much rather my money go there.

I agree with libraries BUT if you live in a large city like Houston per say. There are so few public libraries per capita here and many other large very spread out metro cities. You cannot get to a computer because so many people need access but there are so few computer stations. Access to something that could potentially change someone's life and make them a more productive citizen goes a long way. You have to chalk up the internet to overall computer literacy these days. This is the digital age no matter what kind of spin or ideology we put on it.

If you live in a big city then there MORE locations to access the internet then small towns. I live in Northern California in a decent sized town (approx. 180,000 people)but nowhere near the size of Houston and even here the city provides free internet in the whole downtown area. Not to mention all the private companies that give free internet in locations all across the city; Local ISP's, Schools, Restaurants (Denny's), Hotels, Gas Stations, Even fast food places! (some Mcdonalds, Burger King)
To say that not most unprivledged people are being left out of the digital loop is complete BU**SH*T.

Wow, the amount of ignorance in here is astounding. Regardless of the moral debate going on here, ask yourself one question. Do you really think its going to be great internet service? Do you really think its going to be as fast as the internet that people pay for? Its going to be slow, laden with advertisements, so why do you care?

Most of you have no clue what being a "have not" really is. Its not as simple to get out of as you think. Its a hard road, one that could not be possibly understood unless its been traveled. Sure there are plenty of people who abuse the system, but there are multitudes more who legitimately need help.

And whats wrong with communism? An economic system based off of equality and sharing. Meanwhile capitalism ...
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V-Town said:

And whats wrong with communism? An economic system based off of equality and sharing. Meanwhile capitalism is based off of greed and economic classes. Look past the dictators who gave communism a bad name. Sure its not without plenty of flaws, but its not some evil that we have to be aggressive to.

Communism is NOT FREEDOM. It is total government control, something our forefathers fought against to form this great nation. Capitalism is not based on greed, it is based on giving people the ability to work hard and make themselves a lot of money, or work not as hard and make less money, whatever floats your boat. Having said that you should not ask the hardest workers to pay for things f...
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😁 i understand my first post may have been a little aggressive but Celling It just put into words what i wanted to say. if your scared about people not having much then give your own money Don't spend mine.

Agreed but comparing this to communism is BS. It is a slap in the face to all the people who were beat down by that economic system.

I think a lot of the people supporting this want to describe the internet as an "educational tool" when truth be told most of these "kids using the internet to bridge the educational gap" are just using it to login to their MySpace/Facebook/etc accounts. Or even worse, for the people that sit home all day to surf porn instead of watch soaps.

Oh stop the BS. Lafonda, baby daddy? You know exactly where he was going. Get your head out of your rear 🙄

Honestly, I don't know where he was going as I've heard white women in all sincerity use the term "baby daddy" to refer to their beau. Once again, I've known white women with names similar to Lafonda. In neither case were the women of particularly high social standing and probably were in want of highspeed internet, but they were white, thus bolstering my point. If durkadurkha was heading in that direction, I by no means have his back; I simply agree with his general premise. Regardless, it's pretty pathetic you can't be polite while making your point - I mean really, do you think that augments your argument in any way?

I actually thought I was rather polite because I could have said quite a bit worse. His tone said it all and we all knew where he was going with it and that is more pathetic than me telling you to pull your head out of your rear. I know that very few whites use "baby momma" as I know that less than 1% of whites are named "La Fonda" or something similar. I also know that baby momma is widely used in minority-majority areas as does adding "La or De" in from of first names is widely used in poorer black communities (Trying to be different I guess 😕). (Examples: La Shonda, La Shell, La Quita, La Kesha, De Juan, De Ron, and I have about 100 more). He also included (3 different baby daddies) which if you do statistics, there is a segment of...
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No offense. I merely would've preferred a well-developed argument (which you just posted) instead of a slap-fight. I can read between the lines, but I prefer to give others the benefit of the doubt. If pressed, however, I would most likely agree with you though.....

it really sickens me that YOU have to turn this into a racial comment, we are all created equal its how you live your life that differentiates us and now i understand that you'd rather attack people that try to find a solution than those that cause the problem... ygbhen, i am sorry for any inconvenience i caused you but you should be looking for trying to fix the problem and not create a witch hunt Jesse Jackson style.

No you sicken yourself for that BS you wrote and thought that no one was going to pick up on it. Like I stated, I completely agree on the point of the government should stay out of it but YOU took it down this road. Maybe you should THINK and then write because you came across a idiot in my opinion.

calm down killer i was just using my 1st amendment to express my feelings about where this country is going... i even took the liberty to include an example in my comment in order to show how important this country is to me. I think your the one discriminating against me and my right to free speech. Your a bad person.

not long before our internet is controlled by the man too, then we are screwed.

I grew up in Detroit (10mile and Gratiot) to be exact, by no means did i mean African American or any other minority group, they were examples and if ygbhen wants to turn this into a witch hunt then he is being an instigator, the only point i was making is that people who receive (virtually) free food, cable, CELL Phones, and now Internet. We have to draw the line, the economy is slow and they want to keep raising taxes for useless causes.

I was not instigating anything. I was responding to your poor choice of words and I called you out on it while agreeing with you about freebies. If you were not trying to go there then I apologize to you but at the same time you need to look back at that post and look hard at what you wrote and see how it looks.

😁 i understand my first post may have been a little aggressive (to those left wing nuts) but just put into words what i wanted to say. if your scared about people not having much then give your own money Don't spend mine. see if you even get a thank you

no left wing nuts here. I actually agree with you but the BS you put in there was uncalled for and I called you out on it. You can make you point without being a bigot or an ass 🙂