OK, government officials do have their hearts in the right places. Everyone in America needs to get educated, speak the language of technology, and learn how to take advantage of everything the Internet offers. But lefty political hacks are twisting statistical blips about owning computers into a civil rights issue and a new entitlement. To them it's just one more chance to pump up another bloated government bureaucracy and flush billions down the bunghole, money that they'll get from taxing you. On the Internet nobody knows if you're a rich Hispanic woman or a poor white guy.
Critics wring their hands and whine about elitism, and then prices come down and everybody gets one.
Too bad so many nothingburgers running for president have to flog the culture of victimisation and make it look as if the wealthier half is electronically oppressing the other half. That's the real digital divide.