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Ah, then the internet must be a utility right?
Should be. Lol. You can thank the Republicans for it not being one.
It’s criminal to be poor, obviously.
Just like it’s criminal to be brown or black.
In America, even the poorest person can afford a device with cellular or WiFi access. I’m not contesting that society discriminates against the poor or non-Whites, but I don’t see the discrimination here. Anyone can have access to email.
Come down to Appalachia, where vast areas have no cellular signal at all nor ISP available.
I can’t attest to that area’s WiFi access but if it’s as bead as you say, and what I’ve heard about people stubbornly continuing to live there is true too, then they have only themselves to blame. I’ve been poor and I know plenty of other people who’ve been broke at some point in their lives. There are always options in a nation as rich as America. They’re not always good ones, but you can chain them together into something better.
Not everyone needs internet in their life. Go touch grass.
Tell that to my 90 year old grandfather.
Name a reason your grandfather can’t afford what I’m talking about. Housing subsidies exist. Disability exists. Social security exists. Free phones exist. Hell, you exist. I help hundreds of people a week get access to benefits that are free to them, which help them live. It’s not a luxurious life, to be sure. But it’s a lot better than most poor people from other countries. And we all pay for it with our taxes. The real crime is that it should be paid for many times over with corporate taxes, for which there are loopholes.
Source: I made it the fuck up
Source: my job experience.
You’re the one making shit up, man.
I don’t get it, what’s the actual face being eaten here and who does it belong to?
Rural fucks vote for Republicans overwhelmingly. Rural folks are most likely to not be connected to the internet or have an email address. Republicans now require an email address for FEMA access.
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And even for those that do have email and internet access, rural America isn’t exactly known for having robust infrastructure or government programs to respond to disasters, so they could quite likely find themselves unable to access their email in the aftermath of a disaster, anyway.
Add to that, even if you have an email address, disaster victims are most likely to loose access to it for long periods when they would need it for this.
Honestly, that seems overly broad to me, since this doesn’t seem like the result of any campaign plank that rural voters actually specifically supported, but fair enough. Thanks for the explanation.
It is people who want small government finding out that programs that benefit them or their communities are getting cut.
We’re not even in hurricane season, yet.
IR’s not the hurricane season in the USA? There are hurricanes and storms at the moment
My guess is it’s the result of trying to lower FEMAs budget and focus on more “accountibility” which are certainly right wing talking points
