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by magduf
2394 days ago
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>Citation? I haven't heard anything about this and I work closely with telecom. It's what I've seen with some of my family that lives in smaller towns or rural areas. Some crappy company like CenturyLink buys up the infrastructure and then just lets it rot, but charges huge prices for phone service, higher than cellular service. Then service quality is poor and outages are common. >You know, Slashdot was never quite this toxic back in the day. How on earth is it "toxic" to state a fact? Older people are generally easier to manipulate, which is why there's laws against "elder abuse". Are you going to try to claim now that dementia doesn't exist, because that's "ageist"? |
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That's absolutely not the reason laws like that exist, unless you consider the neglected elderly who are ignored in places like hospice care facilities as having been 'manipulated'.
I think that's a grossly overbroad definition of the phrase.