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Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes

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1135 points carride | 1 comments | 10 Aug 22 13:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.213s | source
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zzzeek ◴[10 Aug 22 19:27 UTC] No.32417212[source]▶
> Jared Mauch is expanding with the help of $2.6 million in government money.

> Mauch told us he provides free 250Mbps service to a church that was previously having trouble with its Comcast service.

That's interesting, he's taking money from the government and giving free internet to a religious organization? Do all "churches" get free internet or just the ones he prefers? Taxpayers are OK subsidizing a specific church based on one person's personal whim???

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1. bell-cot ◴[10 Aug 22 21:57 UTC] No.32418943[source]▶
> user: zzzeek

> about: ...I am a strong proponent of sarcasm.

So - difficult to interpret this comment.

An atheist might reasonably do the same for churches in his service area, for P.R. and Marketing reasons.

How is this different from Bob - who (say) the township pays to mow the lawn & plow the parking lot at the township hall - deciding that he'll mow the lawn & plow the parking lot for free at some local church?