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Government Should Not Spend Big Bucks to Close Internet ‘Time-Wasting Divide’

NANNY STATE

Getting disadvantaged children to waste less time in front of computers and TV screens should be left to parents, says Michael Medved.

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Federal bureaucrats and antipoverty activists who once worried over poor children getting inadequate access to the Internet now fret that those same disadvantaged kids enjoy too much access, wasting untold hours of their time in front of computer and (digital) TV screens.

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