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MADem

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Reply to greiner3 (Reply #5)

Sat Jun 15, 2013, 12:09 PM

Jun 2013

I think people who don't like it have a choice--they can LOG OFF.

There are people who live out in the middle of nowhere, who have clean water, who have electricity--maybe not much, but enough to run the well pump--but who don't have the internet. And who would benefit from it.

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Sorry; greiner3 Jun 2013 #5

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+1 MADem Jun 2013 #14

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