“In Massachusetts, nearly 362,000, or 1 in 19 people, lacked internet service as recently as 2019, including dial-up internet service. In total, 1,009,000 people [in Massachusetts] were without broadband access at home.”[1]
”[In 2021] in about half of the state measured by Microsoft — eight of 14 counties — no more than 63% of households actually have high-speed access”[2]
What is the opposite of white urban legends, where people are so disconnected from how other people live that they assume that hundreds of thousands of people couldn't possibly not have broadband internet? Based on your comment, it seems like you have good intentions. But what you said isn’t based in reality. It is also rather telling that all your ramblings were about dangerousness surrounding "poor" areas. Not about actual poverty, which by the way is sitting at 24% in Dorchester and 34% in Roxbury.[3] Poor people exist, whether you are worried about being mugged by them or not.
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“In Massachusetts, nearly 362,000, or 1 in 19 people, lacked internet service as recently as 2019, including dial-up internet service. In total, 1,009,000 people [in Massachusetts] were without broadband access at home.”[1]
”[In 2021] in about half of the state measured by Microsoft — eight of 14 counties — no more than 63% of households actually have high-speed access”[2]
What is the opposite of white urban legends, where people are so disconnected from how other people live that they assume that hundreds of thousands of people couldn't possibly not have broadband internet? Based on your comment, it seems like you have good intentions. But what you said isn’t based in reality. It is also rather telling that all your ramblings were about dangerousness surrounding "poor" areas. Not about actual poverty, which by the way is sitting at 24% in Dorchester and 34% in Roxbury.[3] Poor people exist, whether you are worried about being mugged by them or not.
[1] https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/sites/default/fil...
[2] https://www.telegram.com/story/news/2021/07/07/gda-broadband...
[3] https://churchandprison.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Selec...