Please @WhiteHouse, let’s make WiFi available to all Americans for free. Nothing fancy, just enough to surf the web for information. I feel that access to knowledge should be a freedom everyone can benefit from.
The pandemic showed that most things can be accessed through the internet. We’ve had watch parties instead of going to the theater. People who don’t know how to text have Zoomed.
With government offered internet you also have a department to look out for the internet users. A department that responds to scam reports. One that also advises about scams.
Imagine if your great aunt was told in advance that the IRS isn’t going to call and ask her to pay her fees with Google Gift Cards. Sure, @GooglePlay will lose money, but they’d probably get less angry phone calls about refunds.
We have the last generation that started in an Analog world. Everyone who was born at least since 2000 is familiar with technology. We will never again have a time when a smartphone wasn’t available.
Start now with giving all Americans and those residing in America a way to access all the information in the world. Do you want your enemy having access to something you don’t? Stupidity is our enemy.
The only way to defeat stupidity is to band together for the benefit of everyone. I want you to be able to fact-check anything I say. I am the worlds greatest lover! No need to look it up. I believe it to be true and my opinion is valid.
We are learning differently now. Not just remotely, but in how we actually teach. Why do children still have to carry textbooks home? Provide tablets to all students, replaced every two years with books licensed digitally instead of textbooks.
You also could get away from certain school supplies. No need for pens or paper when you submit your assignment digitally. No bulky backpacks anymore.
Again, there would ideally be an agency in charge of all of this. You want oversight on the internet? That’s where it gets tricky.
If you supply the internet you would need a very conscientious agency that fully grasps the difference between freedom of speech and freedom from consequences.
The Reliquary Of Learning Lots or T.R.O.L.L would be the best government agency. The mascots could be Stupidity the Troll and Captain Information. There could be a cartoon! On @PBS!
Anyway, please think about offering WiFi to everyone. Access to information should be a right and a freedom for all.
