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Hillary Clinton proposes broadband for all by 2020
UPI ^ | June 28, 2016 | Eric DuVall

Posted on 06/28/2016 6:21:56 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

DENVER, June 28 (UPI) -- Hillary Clinton pledged Tuesday she would bring "affordable" broadband Internet access to all U.S. homes by 2020 as part of a series of proposals to increase web access and bolster the tech sector of the economy.

Presently, the Federal Communications Commission reports 10 percent of Americans, roughly 34 million people, do not have access to broadband Internet. The vast majority of them are people living in rural areas, where tech companies have declined to install the infrastructure necessary to bring high-speed Internet to a small number customers due to the cost.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: broadband; clinton; internet
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To: ConservativeStatement

Maybe the nearly 50% uninformed portion of our citizens could then learn how terrible Hillary has been.


61 posted on 06/28/2016 7:47:23 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: ConservativeStatement

“If you like your current ISP, you can keep it.”

(This will end poorly)


62 posted on 06/28/2016 7:47:41 PM PDT by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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Gee, just internet?


63 posted on 06/28/2016 8:31:47 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Gibsme Dat.


64 posted on 06/28/2016 8:34:13 PM PDT by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: ConservativeStatement

“she would bring “affordable” broadband Internet access to all U.S. homes”

She means all you Dem voters who don’t have it now, will get it free, while the working class will pay extra.


65 posted on 06/28/2016 8:35:02 PM PDT by MaxistheBest
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To: ConservativeStatement; flaglady47; Maine Mariner; seekthetruth; pax_et_bonum; Bob Ireland
The 2016 Democrat Platform...."A chicken in every pot.....(and pot in every citizen)"

Leni

66 posted on 06/28/2016 8:36:14 PM PDT by MinuteGal ( GO, TRUMP, GO !!!....Plus....Boycott Target !!!)
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To: ConservativeStatement

.... She was taken out of context, she was talking about an all woman band called Broadband


67 posted on 06/28/2016 8:43:04 PM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: ConservativeStatement

Faster access to porn for her freeloaders. It helps keep their minds off of such petty things like freedom and maybe getting a job.


68 posted on 06/28/2016 9:00:25 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Rise up America! This country can't take eight more years of Marxism and Socialism.)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

One Wide Latina on SCOTUS is more than enough.


69 posted on 06/28/2016 9:00:53 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: ConservativeStatement

I don’t want it, don’t need it, cannot make me use it if i don’t want to.


70 posted on 06/28/2016 9:05:51 PM PDT by Daniel Ramsey
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To: ConservativeStatement

This is to allow Government to listen to and watch you in your homes. Tell her to go suck a baroque pendulum... or something.


71 posted on 06/28/2016 11:23:52 PM PDT by Gargantua ("President Trump... nice ring to it..." ;^)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Impy proposes Hillary Clinton be sent to Mars by next week.


72 posted on 06/28/2016 11:31:00 PM PDT by Impy (Never Shillery)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Not going to happen.


73 posted on 06/29/2016 3:21:54 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Free sh*t.


74 posted on 06/29/2016 5:59:02 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: ConservativeStatement
Hillary Clinton proposes broadband for all by 2020

Broadband: The giant bungee that holds her pants on her ass.

75 posted on 06/29/2016 5:59:58 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft.)
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To: ConservativeStatement
Hillary Clinton proposes broadband for all by 2020

HA!!!

You MISSED one Bernie!!!

You BITCH!!!


76 posted on 06/30/2016 3:48:36 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: ThanhPhero
Hillary Clinton, and probably Mr. Obama look at the Internet the same way. Their ideological friends control mass communications on the Web already and it would not take terribly much to pinch off the non conforming traffic.


 


 
Eerily familiar...
 
 

Party ownership of the print media
made it easy to manipulate public opinion,
and the film and radio carried the process further.


 



16. Ministry Of Truth

.......

The Ministry of Truth, Winston's place of work, contained, it was said, three thousand rooms above ground level, and corresponding ramifications below.

The Ministry of Truth concerned itself with Lies. Party ownership of the print media made it easy to manipulate public opinion, and the film and radio carried the process further.

The primary job of the Ministry of Truth was to supply the citizens of Oceania with newspapers, films, textbooks, telescreen programmes, plays, novels - with every conceivable kind of information, instruction, or entertainment, from a statue to a slogan, from a lyric poem to a biological treatise, and from a child's spelling-book to a Newspeak dictionary.

Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated into a machine called a speakwrite. Winston would receive articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, in Newspeak, rectify. If, for example, the Ministry of Plenty forecast a surplus, and in reality the result was grossly less, Winston's job was to change previous versions so the old version would agree with the new one. This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs - to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance.

When his day's work started, Winston pulled the speakwrite towards him, blew the dust from its mouthpiece, and put on his spectacles. He dialed 'back numbers' on the telescreen and called for the appropriate issues of The Times, which slid out of the pneumatic tube after only a few minutes' delay. The messages he had received referred to articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to rectify.

In the walls of the cubicle there were three orifices. To the right of the speakwrite, a small pneumatic tube for written messages; to the left, a larger one for newspapers; and on the side wall, within easy reach of Winston's arm, a large oblong slit protected by a wire grating. This last was for the disposal of waste paper. Similar slits existed in thousands or tens of thousands throughout the building, not only in every room but at short intervals in every corridor. For some reason they were nicknamed memory holes. When one knew that any document was due for destruction, or even when one saw a scrap of waste paper lying about, it was an automatic action to lift the flap of the nearest memory hole and drop it in, whereupon it would be whirled away on a current of warm air to the enormous furnaces which were hidden somewhere in the recesses of the building.

As soon as Winston had dealt with each of the messages, he clipped his speakwritten corrections to the appropriate copy of The Times and pushed them into the pneumatic tube. Then, with a movement which was as nearly as possible unconscious, he crumpled up the original message and any notes that he himself had made, and dropped them into the memory hole to be devoured by the flames.

What happened in the unseen labyrinth to which the tubes led, he did not know in detail, but he did know in general terms. As soon as all the corrections which happened to be necessary in any particular number of The Times had been assembled and collated, that number would be reprinted, the original copy destroyed, and the corrected copy placed on the files in its stead.

In the cubicle next to him the little woman with sandy hair toiled day in day out, simply at tracking down and deleting from the Press the names of people who had been vaporized and were therefore considered never to have existed. And this hall, with its fifty workers or thereabouts, was only one-sub-section, a single cell, as it were, in the huge complexity of the Records Department. Beyond, above, below, were other swarms of workers engaged in an unimaginable multitude of jobs.

There were huge printing-shops and their sub editors, their typography experts, and their elaborately equipped studios for the faking of photographs. There was the tele-programmes section with its engineers, its producers and its teams of actors specially chosen for their skill in imitating voices; clerks whose job was simply to draw up lists of books and periodicals which were due for recall; vast repositories where the corrected documents were stored; and the hidden furnaces where the original copies were destroyed.

And somewhere or other, quite anonymous, there were the directing brains who co-ordinated the whole effort and laid down the lines of policy which made it necessary that this fragment of the past should be preserved, that one falsified, and the other rubbed out of existence.

 
 


77 posted on 06/30/2016 3:50:24 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: 1_Rain_Drop
smart phones do not work in my area.

Then; obviously; you do not count.

78 posted on 06/30/2016 3:53:14 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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