Access to Free Broadband is Key to America’s Global Competitiveness
The Internet has, in a relatively short period of time, become a vital part of American life. The resources available on the Internet enable Americans to be more productive and reach new markets around the globe. That is why broadband is not only a key to our quality of life today, but also to America’s competitiveness tomorrow. According to “The State of the Internet” a recent report by Akamai, the U.S. has fallen to 24th global broadband adoption – behind Estonia.
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What you may be forgetting is that such a universal "service to all" will continue to have great costs. If you wish such a system to be provided by the government, besides the inherent bureaucracy of such a system, in the end, the working public will pay for that service - one way or another. "Free access" does not quite mean "free of cost" to the tax-paying end-user and certainly not free of cost in its entirety.
It's likely "universal internet", like universal healthcare, will cost far more than one realizes. It certainly won't be free to you and me as one would dream. Someone will pay, ultimately, and it's likely to be the end-user just the same as now.
Perhaps, with such a system, in some future gone horribly wrong, it will become illegal NOT to have the box. Look in the box and, possibly, the box looks back.
Just an observation.
The concept of making things free seems futile with healthcare and even car manufacturing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzhiG0dcwN8&NR=1
Oh, you've noticed that an assertion does not EFFECT reality?
Those who cannot grasp causality ought not be voting .