Open Spectrum Does Not Mean Free Internet 60
CowboyRobot writes "FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski recently proposed making RF spectrum publicly available, and many in the media (including the Washington Post) have been mistakenly conflating open access to WiFi signal with free Internet access; anyone can put up a wireless access point but that doesn't give them access to the Internet. The proposal will probably mean more attempts at providing free Internet access to specific neighborhoods or municipalities, but as Larry Seltzer at NetworkComputing points out, these programs also usually forget that access to signal is not the same as access to the Internet. After getting the funding to wire a city, these isn't money left to pay for the actual bandwidth usage."
Folks, we need COMMUNISM NOW! (Score:-1, Funny)
The advanced productive forces that have grown up under capitalism are straining at the restraints of private property like so many fetters, and humanity is suffering catastrophe as a result. But capitalism has brought into a being a class that will be its gravedigger, the proletariat. The fetters will be burst asunder. The expropriators will be expropriated. All power to the working class!