METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL E-MAIL

[Tom Buskey]

On 3/7/06, Jeff Kinz <jkinz at kinz.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 05:52:53PM -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
> > On 3/7/06, Neil Joseph Schelly <neil at jenandneil.com> wrote:
> > > This isn't something to get so bent out of shape for really.
> >
> >   Sure it is.  Didn't you know that Internet access is a
> > Constitutional Right?  ;-)
>
> Don't laugh Ben, its already been seriously discussed.  :-)
>
> "Access to information shall not be abridged."
> (Bujold, 1991, 358)
>
> And the way our technological society is moving, eventually we must
> ~somehow~ insure that everyone  who wants access to the net
> can get it it even if they can't pay for it.
>
> Why?
>
> One reason: It will be cheaper to deliver many of the government
> managed services to persons in need via the web than any other way
> and since some of those services are either mandated or court ordered,
> we (The taxpaying citizens), might as well get it done at the lowest
> cost.
>
> Another reason is that persons who don't have some net access will be
> (are!) seriously disadvantaged in a way that is roughly comparable to
> being functionally illiterate has been a disadvantage for the past 100
> years.



Many (most) public libraries  provide internet access now.  For some, that's
thier only access.  Or through computers at school.  My wife works at MCC
and needs to remind people of this all the time.  Her students usually don't
have computers and can only use the college computers.  Which are not
available on weekends so she sends them to the library.


--
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad
measures.
  - Daniel Webster
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