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Re:Show HN: 2.5B people can’t afford internet – need your op... by hairytrog on Friday August 23, 2019 @09:42PM (#20784598)
You might be starting with the wrong question. You are assuming internet access is a good thing and that extending its supply will be best for everyone. Consider the following:

- the internet makes people dumber (low attention spans, group think, advertising driven content, addictive behaviors promoted, etc)

- the internet makes us consumers instead of creators

- the internet makes people depressed and anxious

- the internet causes around 5% of global GHG emissions

- internet enhances ability for total monitoring and censoring of speech

- internet creates centralized global tech monopolies on information flow and data

- extensive global networks put society at increased risk of total collapse

What are the benefits and do they really outweigh the negatives? Can the benefits be accomplished through other means? Just make sure you're comfortable with possibly making people's lives worse.

Re:Show HN: 2.5B people can’t afford internet – need your op... by DoreenMichele on Friday August 23, 2019 @11:01PM (#20784947)
What are the benefits

The LGBTQ crowd is benefiting tremendously from online dating.

People with weird health issues are benefiting tremendously from the ability to do research and safely talk to others with their condition, something that would be difficult or impossible to arrange and potentially quite dangerous to do in person due to cross contamination issues.

I'm not going to sit here and try to point-by-point rebut your points, but, man, what a gloomy, glass-half-empty point of view. There is zero attempt at all to be even-handed about it.

Re:Show HN: 2.5B people can’t afford internet – need your op... by jibla on Friday August 23, 2019 @10:39PM (#20784859)
Do you think we, those who are connected, should give up our internet connections? If not should we leave the rest of the world's population without it?
Re:Show HN: 2.5B people can’t afford internet – need your op... by hairytrog on Friday August 23, 2019 @10:56PM (#20784924)
No. I'm addicted.
Re:Show HN: 2.5B people can’t afford internet – need your op... by dmix on Friday August 23, 2019 @10:24PM (#20784796)
The mechanical knitting machine will take all of our jobs and we'll be unemployed. Lets break the machines in protest and go back to handlooms!