{"id":2068,"date":"2004-06-29T13:49:55","date_gmt":"2004-06-29T20:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/06\/defeating-terror-through-broadband\/"},"modified":"2004-06-29T13:49:55","modified_gmt":"2004-06-29T20:49:55","slug":"defeating-terror-through-broadband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/29\/defeating-terror-through-broadband\/","title":{"rendered":"Defeating terror through broadband"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tPresident Bush made a pitch for universal broadband recently, a vital tool in the war on terror:<\/a><\/p>\n

\nRemember, we’re still in a battle against ideological extremists who use terrorism as a tool to frighten, scare, kill people such as us who love freedom. And, therefore, what I’m telling you is as broadband expands, it’s going to enable us better to protect our homeland, which is a vital concern of any of us in our government. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He pitched three technologies, 1) powerline:<\/p>\n

We need to use our power lines better. They go everywhere. It seems to make sense, doesn’t it, if what you’re looking for is avenues into the home. Well, electricity goes into the home. And so one great opportunity is to spread broadband throughout America via our power lines. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and 2) WiFi:<\/p>\n

We’re setting up a wi-fi hot zone, which means our citizens are more likely to be more productive than the citizens from a neighboring community. It’s a great opportunity. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and enhanced cellular data services:<\/p>\n

Another kind of wireless broadband would be more wide-ranging. It would be based on mobile wireless. It wouldn’t depend on a physical connection to an existing cable or telephone modem as wi-fi does. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In response, John Kerry pitched his three preferred forms of communication, telegraph, telephone, and tell-a-woman.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Bush made a pitch for universal broadband recently, a vital tool in the war on terror: Remember, we’re still in a battle against ideological extremists who use terrorism as a tool to frighten, scare, kill people such as us who love freedom. And, therefore, what I’m telling you is as broadband expands, it’s going … Continue reading “Defeating terror through broadband”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-xm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}