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I typed this on my phone and sent it by email and will enthusiastically Google to see if it gets published and I did this because I know how to use the technology but many don’t and now they won’t have the opportunity to learn. The younger people are digital natives, able to do everything online but unable to get off their devices. Older people like me might have learnt at some time although I never had the opportunity to touch a computer until I went to university. That ‘Tandy TRS-80 Model I’ wouldn’t be of much use now! It is unfair if people are prevented from now learning how to use them but President Trump had ended the Digital Equity Act, calling it “racist” and “illegal”. It would be racist and illegal to deny people any form of education based upon their race.

There may be a racial factor here because there are still inequalities in the opportunities that different people in the US have for so many reasons but that is what should be remedied and this Act was one small contribution. I see no reason why educating people is illegal. This seems to bear some resemblance to the days when slaves were rarely taught to read and write with it even being illegal in some states.

Maybe I shouldn’t read the papers or online newspapers as it upsets me to see people being denied basic rights by President Trump.

Dennis Fitzgerald,

Melbourne, Australia