It's criminal to be poor, obviously.

Just like it's criminal to be brown or black.

Ah, then the internet must be a utility right?

I don't get it, what's the actual face being eaten here and who does it belong to?

I had zero electricity, cell signal, or any sort of communication service during and after Hurricane Beryl, and that wasn't even a strong hurricane. There was no power north of me for 11 days. How are you going to check email with nothing to power these devices?

Modernizing communication makes perfect sense, but it should be an addition to improve flow of information, not a replacement that leaves some people behind for whatever reason. Most people would move to such a system willingly, freeing up resources for the older methods to work for those who need it. This sounds like a move to "accidentally" filter out certain demographics.

thankfully every citizen is guaranteed a permanent email address that can never be taken away by the state.

20 or so years ago I worked at Akamai for a while. They were one of the first, and at the time the largest CDN provider in the world. They have racks of networking gear in literally thousands of data centers around of the world.

One day while still learning their systems I was digging through old tickets in their Network Operations Center and stumbled on one that was a few years old and still open. The initial message in the ticket was merely an automated message that a node at a Midwest ISP was down. There were a few comments by various Akamai folks who tried to remotely access the equipment, followed by attempts to reach the ISP by email and phone. None of that was successful.

The last entry in the ticket was a statement that the ISP’s datacenter had been destroyed by a tornado.

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LOL you know this is going to affect red states way more...

Uhh

Ok

the provide the email service and internet if you're fixing someone to use it.