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Re:Steve Wozniak Says People Should Get Off Facebook Permane... by canada_dry on Monday July 08, 2019 @06:07PM (#20387239)
> can't the city host it's own website with forums and everything

Of course it could... but with tight public budgets it would likely be implemented so poorly as to be useless.

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Re:Steve Wozniak Says People Should Get Off Facebook Permane... by godelski on Monday July 08, 2019 @07:44PM (#20387786)
That's why I suggested a group of technologically savvy people undertake the challenge to devise a system that is trivial to implement. Cost likely isn't going to be much considering a small town isn't going to need much bandwidth and since many do already run websites (albeit shabby).
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Re:Steve Wozniak Says People Should Get Off Facebook Permane... by xtiansimon on Monday July 08, 2019 @06:40PM (#20387429)
My city can barely make a webpage (poor content structure), and event calendar that isn’t woefully out of date.

What about the US Digital Services? A WPA program for 21st century?

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Re:Steve Wozniak Says People Should Get Off Facebook Permane... by godelski on Monday July 08, 2019 @06:55PM (#20387530)
Well then as a rebuttal:

>> I'm sure a discussion somewhere like HN could quickly improve on this idea in a way that would be robust and easy to implement (because a key thing is that we want to get small towns to be able to implement this)

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