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2021-05-12 Home Front: Politix

Emergency program to give people $50 off internet bill

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Posted by Skidmark 2021-05-12 09:16|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 Pay off the rubes with crumbs so they don't complain about the huge payoff to the Left.

Posted by Angstrom 2021-05-12 09:38|| 2021-05-12 09:38|| Front Page Top

#2 You just *know* that this will become an entitlement which will drive up the cost of us who actually *pay* for our broadband.

Does the program include build in censorship and fact-checkers? Wouldn't want the rubes to get infiltered news now would we?

And don't forget that the government *loves* to control what it pays for.

Posted by CrazyFool 2021-05-12 09:46|| 2021-05-12 09:46|| Front Page Top

#3 That would increase my satellite data from 10 to 17 GB per month.

Posted by Glenmore 2021-05-12 10:28|| 2021-05-12 10:28|| Front Page Top

#4 I was recently offered a discount, 10% IIRC, on my health insurance if I shopped back at the Federal Trading Post.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-05-12 14:07|| 2021-05-12 14:07|| Front Page Top

#5 swksvff, But the blankets are full of smallpox...

Posted by Glenmore 2021-05-12 17:41|| 2021-05-12 17:41|| Front Page Top

#6 Sounds like the carriers last desperate attempt to head Musk, SpaceX and StarLink off at the pass before StarLink goes live (not beta) in a few months.
Currently it's around 1500 sats but only 800 are yet in proper orbits and the shells that need to be installed over the poles don't get loaded until a bunch of launches from Vandy that also require a landing barge - not yet built in the southland nor transited the Panama Canal.

Last chance before Musk owns the whole world's non-big-city Internet.

Posted by 3dc 2021-05-12 18:05|| 2021-05-12 18:05|| Front Page Top

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