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I grew up in rural West Virginia and Frontier's DSL offering was (and in most cases) still is (aside from satellite internet with ridiculous throttling limits) the only option for internet connectivity. As a teenager I was always frustrated, and as an adult with a fully remote job, I am still frustrated because I cannot visit my parents for any extended period of time due to the abysmal internet. Not only is the speed exceptionally bad (often between .5 mbps and 1 mbps for paid service of 5mbps) but they have regular outages and issues with the supplied routers and modems.

To top that off, I've heard from my old friends and family, that the lines in some neighborhoods are so overwhelmed by the current load, that they are have begun to turn down new customers because they do not have the infrastructure to support them.

West Virginia and Frontier have a long and troubled history and it seems like it's going to continue for a long time. I can only hope that StarLink is a real and viable solution for people who don't have good internet access.

Some details about WV's past with Frontier https://www.wvpublic.org/government/2020-12-10/frontier-has-...

I think the point of the first two laws isn't just "get rid of laws" but rather, only create and keep around laws that serve an immediate purpose. Essentially in opposition to the make a law because it might solve a problem later on.

I agree with enforcing this laws against ISPs now as I think internet connectivity and accessibility protections are problems that need solved now.

I think their third point is likely just pointing out that many of the users of this site are probably opposed to the "If you don't have anything to hide then why do you need privacy argument", yet are taking what the author sees as a similar argument against the ISPs. It could be viewed as hypocritical and indicates that there needs to be more argument for why someone would want these enforced ASAP other than "If you aren't doing anything bad now then why do you want to block the law".

When logging in with a Github account this application requests Read and Write permission to the following:

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Looks like a cool application but I have no idea why you would need write access to any of the above.

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I think the point is that they weren't previously unemployed. In rural areas housing is vastly more affordable than urban or city areas. In my home town in West Virginia there are multiple homes and mobile homes with land in fair condition for < $100k.

If you want to figure it out I recommend using burp and taking a look at the requests.