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California Bill Would Require That AT&T And Comcast Make Broadband Affordable For Poor People (www.techdirt.com)

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The proposal comes after Republicans killed a federal FCC program that provided a $30 discount off the broadband bills of low-income Americans. The Republicans in question claimed they killed the popular program to save money, but a follow up study showed that the program more than paid for itself (by a factor of four) because it helped expand access to remote healthcare, employment, and education.

My state fighting a good fight. We’re flawed, but we sometimes get it right.

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[+] merde@sh.itjust.works -6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Poor people deserve bad customer service, too!

why did you choose to add "too" to the end of the sentence, instead of writing "poor people too deserve …"?

Is it a visual choice? Are you trying to balance "O"s as in oo………oo

[–] elvith@feddit.org 6 points 1 day ago

Grammar Nazi chiming in:

Too meaning ‘also’

We can use too to mean ‘also’. It is more common than also in informal situations. We normally use it at the end of the clause.

In short answers in informal situations, we normally say me too, not I too.

In more formal situations, we can use too immediately after the subject.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/too

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You're not wrong. People tend to tune me out when I speak that formally, and I made a decision a long time ago to always write how I speak.

That being said, you should hear my corrected version of Land of Confusion.

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