Facebook is talking to the White House about giving away ‘free’ Internet

Re:Facebook is talking to the White House about giving away ... by takeda on Thursday October 06, 2016 @05:49PM (#12656417)

Facebook is not the Internet though, it doesn't offer any benefits except eating away your free time.

Do you know in this age anyone in USA who doesn't have access to the Internet and also would want it? I never met anyone, like that. I met people who don't have Internet (usually older people), but they are also not interested to have it.

Even if there are such people in US, they can get Internet access in library (together with free books and free newspapers), because surely they also won't be able to afford a computer.

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Re:Facebook is talking to the White House about giving away ... by toomanybeersies on Thursday October 06, 2016 @06:51PM (#12656790)

I don't live in the USA, so I can't comment specifically on the USA.

Of course, due to the people I associate with, I don't know anybody without access to internet. But I knew quite a few people at school who didn't have access to internet at home.

There's a lot of parts of the world where there aren't libraries with publicly accessible computers.

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