The 'Digital Divide' and COVID-19's Impact on Internet Access | Mashable

Mashable's Rachel Kraus walks through the many ways the digital divide has intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic - and why thinking about the internet as a freeway could inform how we close it.
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[@yaaqov1]

Thank you to the producers of this segment. As an innovator focused on digital inclusion, I can use a video like this when educating decision-makers in the nonprofit sector quickly get up to speed.

[@wncapplicationsofai]

What broadband policy changes do you recommend?

[@apricotcomputers3943]

Any time i hear federal minimum, i get the hibee jibees😂

[@thesdfable]

can it work in a shelter?.............let's first ask if everyone can afford a smart phone or a laptop and pay their internet service.........

[@melhorq1]

Wtf is latin-x??

[@MarcAOuellette]

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[@andrewunknown111]

Do poor people not deserve internet access?

[@MarcAOuellette]

@@andrewunknown111 You want to pay for someone’s internet you’re more than welcome to. Knock on their door and say. Hey man I want to pay for your internet. But you don’t want that you want me to pay for it. Sell bleeding heart somewhere else. I’m not buying it. Oh and if you do. Please record it. It will be funny watching you get jumped as you are leaving the place flaunting money around. Good luck with that

[@andrewunknown111]

@@MarcAOuellette I don’t think you actually watched the video as not once in the video did it actually imply free internet for anyone, just cheaper, more accessible internet and better coverage in rural area. I don’t think you or anyone else should pay for anyone’s internet but I very strongly believe high speeds should be cheaper and coverage be more widely available to people in more rural areas.