{"id":957,"date":"2006-05-17T06:43:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-17T11:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/let-them-eat-broadband\/"},"modified":"2006-05-26T08:01:11","modified_gmt":"2006-05-26T13:01:11","slug":"let-them-eat-broadband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/let-them-eat-broadband","title":{"rendered":"Let them eat broadband!"},"content":{"rendered":"

If Eliot Spitzer has his way, someday we’ll all<\/em> be able to download porno, regardless of race, color, creed or economic class. The NY state attorney general believes that universal high-speed internet access is a necessity for NY<\/a>. (Presumably, this will allow him to utilize the Marshall Law to force phone and cable companies to make a deal to provide this at a loss, causing them to raise rates in other parts of their business.)<\/p>\n

As one analyst quoted in the article points out, providing internet access doesn’t mean jack for families that can’t afford a computer:<\/p>\n

That’s a much bigger reason for the lack of broadband penetration in low-income households than service accessibility, argues Bruce Liechtman, principal analyst with Liechtman Research Group and a former chair of the editorial board for the Cable & Telecommunications Marketing Assn. journal. “Broadband adoption really correlates directly with household income.” If Spitzer wants to solve the digital divide, Leichtman says, “he should be giving everybody a computer.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Spitzer tells us that poor kids in NYC have it tough: “If you’re kid growing up in South Korea, your Internet access is 10 times faster at half the price than a kid growing up in the South Bronx,” he said.<\/p>\n

On the flip side, kids in the South Bronx don’t share their northern border with a nuclear-armed country filled with bark-eating zombies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If Eliot Spitzer has his way, someday we’ll all be able to download porno, regardless of race, color, creed or economic class. The NY state attorney general believes that universal high-speed internet access is a necessity for NY. (Presumably, this will allow him to utilize the Marshall Law to force phone and cable companies to … <\/p>\n

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