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SheltieLover

(57,073 posts)
Thu Oct 20, 2022, 01:20 PM Oct 2022

Are internet speeds really worse in neighborhoods with fewer white residents?

https://www.localmemphis.com/article/news/nation-world/internet-speeds-neighborhoods/507-3de055a7-f704-4594-b706-c92f89378ca2

None of the providers denied charging the same fee for vastly different internet speeds to different neighborhoods in the same cities.

NEW ORLEANS — A couple of years into the pandemic, Shirley Neville had finally had enough of her shoddy internet service.

“When I was getting ready to use my tablet for a meeting, it was cutting off and not coming on,” said Neville, who lives in a middle-class neighborhood in New Orleans whose residents are almost all Black or Latino.

More at link. Great reason to codify Net Neutrality!
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Are internet speeds really worse in neighborhoods with fewer white residents? (Original Post) SheltieLover Oct 2022 OP
Welcome to the shithole country that the USA has become FakeNoose Oct 2022 #1
Yup SheltieLover Oct 2022 #2

FakeNoose

(32,777 posts)
1. Welcome to the shithole country that the USA has become
Thu Oct 20, 2022, 01:26 PM
Oct 2022

Thanks Chump! You never had any idea how to make America great again, did you?

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