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What if one of the hundred million suffering slightly, missing school work, or work assignments because of bandwidth theft, and loses grade or job and consequently, a chance at productive life?

Really? We're now calling degraded bandwidth or service outages excuses for an unproductive life? What about the missed appointment because of a traffic jam? Are we making that the city planners' fault because they didn't build enough road capacity? Are we blaming the automakers because the jam was caused by a broken-down car?

What about the millions of hours of productive time that are wasted on social media? What about the student who fails a class because he wasted time on Facebook instead of studying? Or the employee who gets fired because he didn't complete a work assignment because Google Docs was down, and lost a chance at a produtive life. Are all online service providers now responsible for their users' life outcomes?



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