Kansas City Star Decries Digital Divide Impacting 'Least White' Neighborhoods

There's likely a defense of INTENSELY SILLY LANGUAGE on the topic of tech diversity or the lack thereof . . .

Sadly, it just looks like the newspaper editorializing in their coverage of a topic where the might not have the expertise required to accurately report. 

In the meantime . . .

Here's a story we've all read before . . .

A joint investigation by national news organizations The Markup and The Associated Press has found that Kansas City is one of the most inequitable cities in the U.S. when it comes to internet service provided by two major companies.

Areas of the city with fewer white residents and lower average household incomes are being served slower internet by AT&T and Earthlink than areas with more white residents and higher average household incomes, all while being charged the same monthly rate.

The report’s data shows that residents in Kansas City’s least-white neighborhoods pay as much as three times per Megabit per second as those in the whitest areas of the city.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Some in KC's least-white, lower income neighborhoods pay high prices for slower internet

A joint investigation by national news organizations The Markup and The Associated Press has found that Kansas City is one of the most inequitable cities in the U.S. when it comes to internet service provided by two major companies.