was not aware of it at the time, but the reason we don't have decent online and broadcast education for all is that some commercial companies didn't want poor people to be able to have anything.

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all the important infrastructure things need to be free to everyone in a civilised society and businesses should only be allowed to monetise frivolous stuff.

I had only noticed the loss of the Open University but it was wider than that. Evil capitalism wants to monetise everything. Hence the continual moves to defund the BBC and privatise the NHS (for which the current pandemic has been a very convenient excuse).

it's going to tie in to why they haven't wanted to supply free laptops and tablets and connections and have only done so via overpaying a Tory crony company to under-deliver. In the world of capitalist scum, everything must involve someone getting rich at everyone else's expense.

meanwhile, the government would still much rather kill poor people (and their families and teachers) via schools than supply them with the resources they need at home:

Dr Zubaida Haque on Twitter

also denying them cheap broadband connection:

Pippa Crerar on Twitter