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What Next TBD: How Big Internet Keeps Small Communities Disconnected

Slate Technology

Slate

Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6636 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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A small parish in Louisiana tried to get affordable, fast internet. An incumbent ISP stopped them. Guest: Issie Lapowsky, Wanda Manning Host: Lizzie O'Leary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I made you think you was real.

0:02.0

My name is Caden Sinclair.

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We were happy. We wanted for nothing.

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and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.

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1:01.6

Wanda Manning is 58, and she's lived in East Carroll Parish in Louisiana for her entire life.

1:08.2

We are in the northeastern part of the state.

1:12.5

We pressed against the levy, and on the other side of the levy is the Mississippi River.

1:21.0

It's a small, rural place, mostly agricultural, a land that was once used for cotton plantations.

1:29.1

About 7,200 people live there now, more than a third of them below the poverty line,

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