Baton Rouge, New Orleans chosen for federal program bringing high-speed internet to low-income homes

http://www.nola.com/ via A.P. ^ | 6/15/15

[BBell]

A new program to connect low-income households in public housing with Internet access and Internet-capable devices announced Wednesday will aim particularly at children and include training to help program participants maximize their use of the new devices and technology.

ConnectHome will link 270,000 households, and 200,000 children, with broadband access in 28 communities including the Choctaw Nation in Oklahoma.

[BBell]

I guess this is the latest in the bread and circuses phase of our nation.

I want to know when I get my free high-speed internet.

[2banana]

obamaphones and obamainternet.

Why work?

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Yeah, my N-word! We findsta gets our downloadin’ on like a mutha——er!!!

[Lurker]

Note to installers: up your life insurance policies to the maximum.

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[Fungi]

From feckless fool phone to feckless fool internet. Next up, feckless fool food and feckless fool housing—no wait.....

[matt04]

Soooo....free porn or online gambling access.

[boycott]

Free ObamaPhones and Free ObamaNet.

That POS can rot.

[Carthego delenda est]

So sick of this ‘free shit’ going to all the Obots. As always, we producers get to pay for it one way or another.

[USNBandit]

"DSL!? Ain't nobody got time for dat! I want some G D fiber!"

[rainee]

LOL!

[DUMBGRUNT]

All the new employment opportunities!

Prostitution, drug sales, stolen property sales...

The more advanced users can hack into user cameras and look for worthwhile targets.

[DBrow]

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/technology/story/online-porn-to-boom-in-next-five-years-thanks-to-smartphone-growth-study/1/451555.html

Seems appropriate here.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Now they’ve gotta steal more computers.

[Michael.SF.]

Next will be, not Obama-phones but: ObamaMacs!!

[Crim]

O-pads....from tampex.

[The Great RJ]

If this high speed Internet is free look for it to quickly become useless as all the free riders will use up the bandwidth. There is an old principle in economics called the tragedy of the commons. If a resource is without cost then it will be quickly exhausted.

[RightGeek]

Get ready for the next step - they’ll need Obamacomputers (with free service plans) to use the Obamainternet

[Opinionated Blowhard]

help program participants maximize their use of the new devices and technology.

So will these low income Welfare types use the computer to "maximize their potential" by looking for jobs, or will they just look at porn. I know where I'd place my bets.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Look at the bright side—if they’re sitting in front of their computers wasting time, they won’t be on the streets.

[MasterGunner01]

Yes, the FedGov bureaucrats want to bring high speed Internet to the poor so they can surf porn sites. I wonder if they'll provide the computers too?