Well not free people still pay for Internet access.
I disagree somewhat. My tax money (and many commercial attempts to attract customers) provides free access to those who will go to Libraries and such (where they're even allowed to publicly view porn, even with children around.......) for "access" to the
free computers to do it with, or bring their laptop (or whatever) down to their business and hopefully buy a cup of Java to go with it. Far more sanitary to use your own keyboard you know, you have no idea about the one in the library you know.
What people pay for is
more convenient Internet access. They, quite naturally, don't really want to have to go downtown. And many of them have that ISP (emphasis on the "
Provider" part......) paid for with tax money from other people as it is. More 'rights'.
Anyway, the Internet remains free IMO. As individuals we may enter contracts with ISPs to make access more to our liking, but unlike telephone (cell or land line) or snail mail you don't pay to use the network......which in turn blesses us with inboxes filled with 'free advertising'. Unlike filling my mailbox up with trash, that costs the slimeballs that do it for the very modest profit they get from all the grief they cause.......not to mention giving all those guys in Nicaragua so many more innocent folks to scam. They just got another one here in San Jose. Beat a 66 YO widow out of her life savings (got her to take out a loan on her house and wire the money to an account in Turkey). She got wise, tipped off the bank, who phoned Holder on the Bat Phone and the Turks got the bottom feeder when he went to pick up the booty. So now the chap is in a Turkish Prison (not famous for fine cuisine and five star accomidations) with plenty of time to reflect on his sins. May he rot.
But the guy claiming to be a Brit stuck on a Scots Oil rig scammed the money from halfway around the world for free.
Mind you liberals in their never ending quest for yet more money to buy votes with keep trying to tax the internet, but thus far have been turned back at every attempt. It remains free. Won't discourage them, of course......they want your money. If we could just get them to limit it at taxing
spam, but history has shown once they get their snout into the public trough.........
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