Technology

You can survive without running water. You can survive without Internet.

Lack of Internet will make survival harder, just like lack of running water (if not to the same degree)

Keep in mind, if you fall behind too far people will kick you out of your house, disrupt any attempts to make a shelter, significantly increases rates of death for a variety of causes

A man wandering the desert doesn't turn up at the edge of town asking for the WiFi password. :-)

If I don't have internet, I can't do my job, therefore I can't get money I need to spend on food, water and shelter, which I need to live.

No thanks, power companies get away with an absolutely insane amount of bullshit. They should absolutely be more strictly regulated and held accountable.

Given what I was paying last summer for electricity in Rhode Island, I am not sure I can endorse your sentiment

Internet is not a base requirement like water. Without food, water, shelter, you die. Without internet and electricity you are left behind, you don’t die. It should be regulated like electricity

Yes because being homeless and without power will definitely ensure you can stay alive. This whole argument doesn't make sense. Electricity doesn't need to be regulated like water because for the most part, there can't be tainted electricity. But you can still get your water cut off just like power so clearly the government doesn't ensure you have ready access to it.

Oh and shelter is a base requirement but we still let people die in the streets. And for those people we aren't supplying them with water: they can drink from what few public fountains exist in parks...if the cops don't beat them for "loitering".

No, internet should be a requirement to be provided to everyone like we regulate water and electricity and (used to) telephone service.

Adding to this, we aren’t being charged separately for using the bathroom, livingroom, or garage. The internet should not be divided as such.