Uh, they probably already do.

http://online.wsj.com/public/article...377523845.html

Pentagon, Bomb, Jihad.

There. Now the Government is watching you too.

Happy now?

Dude, Google NSA. :lol:

JC

It's like no one has heard of Carnivore...

Newsflash; they already are watching!

They do this now, but they need permission and it is much harder.

Do you think the government's intention is to provide "free" anything without some hidden agenda? More taxes, easy access to info?

My concern is that if the net is slow or down, how long are we gonna have to wait until its fixed? This is the government we are talkin about...

Too bad the private market didn't have a solution for broadband internet...
http://vzwmap.verizonwireless.com/do.../broadband.jpg

Looks like they even have parts of Alaska covered (even far north Barrow Alaska area).

Appalachian, Georgia? http://www.twowheelsonly.com/
Check out "Amenities" and look at the first thing they offer? If the evil phone companies only offered high speed internet to that area.

I also noticed on the map a big white spot near the Georgia/Florida line. Didn't know that Alligators needed high speed internet but guess I was wrong.

http://vzwmap.verizonwireless.com/ou...7.JPG?krakatoa

Oh yeah. See those tan spots on the Georgia coast? Those are the Georgia Islands that are federal protected. You are not allowed to lay a human foot on those islands, yet they do have coverage.

OK, 101...just for you, so you don't get your tinfoil hat all akilter:

Did you ever think that the government realizes how important to the economy the Internet is? That they realize that by expanding access to broadband, it increases the economy? Driving up the tax base?

Aha...that last part was just for you, 101.

Feel better about it now?

Dead on. Because Native Americans in southwest Alaska and Appalachian Georgia meth makers are the staple of our economy. Without the interwebz they can't operate.

Edited for accuracy on Georgia part.

lol @ west virginia's shitty coverage

And I'm sure with a populatoin of only 1.8 million, 5 electoral votes, and only a few counties voting for President Obama in the 2008 eleciton that they are at the top of the list.

Regardless if this is intended to help out the rural areas get broadband internet, I'm betting that it will be held up considerably by politicans bickering for it in their area and in political favors from the party in control of the congress (and White House). Then throw in the communication lobbyists.

You mean those people wouldn't consume broadband products like Netflix, Vonage, Hulu, and others?

Idiot.

Everyone needs the big pipe to their door so they can sell you shit.