[kgin]

I’m not sure I understand what the proposed relationship is.

Web access for most people has been essentially the same experience for years. Whether you have 5mbps or 1000mbps, Facebook pops up about the same.

Why would having access to higher speeds change your engagement with civic institutions. I could understand if we were comparing dialup era (or even pre-internet era) to broadband era.

[randomopining]

Yeah I never understood. Everybody is like “wow fiber internet, education!”

People are just gonna start their TikTok vids 0.2secs faster.

It takes community and parenting to actually leverage the availability of resources. You could download all the MIT courses on a 3mb dsl connection in 2008 and have your kid learn from the greatest in the world for free. And yet kids today are on their series x and tiktok on their dads wifi 6e router with gigabit fiber.

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That's maybe the truth for urban aeras but suburban and rural areas in most of europe had no or really restricted broadband access until the last 5 years. Standard upload speeds are still 20mbits or even lower. We are not speaking about consuming we are also speaking about creating content or contributing to communities. If you are a family of four with two children with your children engaging in gaming or online communities, it's very hard to come by with just 100/20.