According to FastCompany, President Bush opposes the campaign for free nationwide Wi-Fi, which with predominantly serve the rural population. It doesn’t seem to make much sense, but then again, I don’t recall the last thing Bush did that really made a whole lot of sense either.

The argument seems to be that its an inefficient investment of infrastructure; but lets face it, as mentioned in the article, the reason it should be there is because there isn’t a private provider willing to serve that population anyway. I doubt that we’ll see people moving from the city to take advantage of a slow Wi-Fi link. Not only that, but it seems like the upload bandwidth will be throttled as an effective way to discourage file sharing.

So what’s the problem, W?