Analysis of broadband affordability deemed “extraneous” by FCC chair.
The Federal Communications Commission is ditching Biden-era standards for measuring progress toward the goal of universal broadband deployment.
The changes will make it easier for the FCC to give the broadband industry a passing grade in an annual progress report. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s proposal would give the industry a thumbs-up even if it falls short of 100 percent deployment, eliminate a long-term goal of gigabit broadband speeds, and abandon a new effort to track the affordability of broadband.
Section 706 of the Telecommunications Act requires the FCC to determine whether broadband is being deployed “on a reasonable and timely basis” to all Americans. If the answer is no, the US law says the FCC must “take immediate action to accelerate deployment of such capability by removing barriers to infrastructure investment and by promoting competition in the telecommunications market.”
Keep poor people in the dark or they won’t vote for you.
Didn’t ISPs just get tens of billions of dollars to expand high-speed connections to rural areas? For the second time?
No that was just free money we gave them.
What money? I guess they’ll need some in about… two years or so for rural broadband? That’s about time to buy some election influence again.
And they kept it all to buy themselves the latest private jets stocked full of cocaine and hookers. Again.
Why does everything have to be so fucking political?
Faster broadband is good. Who fucking cares what political party?
But corporations don’t want to spend money on customers, so they’d rather keep customers on slow speeds and charge the same price.
For rural communities to get higher speeds ISPs have to actually use the money the government gives them for increasing rural community internet speeds on increasing rural community internet speeds. If broadband is defined as “one house in the county has access to internet as fast as your grandparents had growing up” then they’ve already met their goal and they don’t need to spend any money and collect pure profit from government subsidies.
Biden thought that was bullshit and established policy to direct them to do the right thing. The current administration, however, is more than happy taking their checks to the back.
We should not be giving private entities cash without rigid metrics and timelines. In fact, we should claw back what we’ve given them.
In general I’d agree. Unfortunately, private entities and lobbyists don’t and they’ll pay politicians for the privilege of getting free money at the expense of the rest of us.
I fucking hate that every couple of years we just backpedal on everything. So god damn exhausting.
It takes so long to fix everything, too!
This is the part that bothers me so much about everything that is being dismantled right now. It took forever to get it to where it is, and it still needed a lot of improvement. And it was just smashed seemingly overnight.
It’s like a sandcastle. Takes forever to build a good one, and it takes some asshole one second to step on it and destroy the whole thing.
takes some asshole one second to step on it and destroy the whole thing.
Absolutely. The last one to just go “lol nah” and demolish the working class this hard was Reagan, and we were still reaping the fallout from those asinine policies when 2016 hit!
Yeah well, clearly it wasn’t fixed fast enough so we should vote back in the people that break everything. Or decide that we shouldn’t vote at all like the lazy sacks of shit we are.
Propaganda is a hell of a drug
And “fixing it” usually means giving away the infrastructure we built to the private sector so it can charge us to use what our tax money built.
We need a new 4th branch of government that’s in charge of infrastructure and public welfare.
No, we really just need to stop selecting between two bad presidents over and over again. If you always pick the second-worst option, you’re going to have a bad time. Pick the best option. Ranked choice voting is the only way.
How would this branch be structured? How would it interface with the other branches? How would its members be appointed? What does “Infrastructure and Public Welfare” entail? Why are “Infrastructure” and “Public Welfare” grouped together? What powers would it have to carry out its job, and what specifically is that job? Based on those previous answers, how would it solve any existing or foreseeable issues? Why would it be better positioned to solve those issues than a change made within the existing three-branch framework?
Blah blah blah checks and balances that we can pretend exist.
It’s because USA has nukes my friend. The only way your enemies can attack you is through asymmetric warfare, mostly by corrupting your political system so that you attack yourself.
If you’ve wondered why everything looks like a coup since he got in, perhaps it is because it is one.
https://lemmy.world/post/31401705
https://electiontruthalliance.org/
And if you’re wondering why Democrats like Tim Walz are not even interested in investigating it themselves, well, the existence of certain files and whether or not they are disclosed could have something to do with that.
stop voting them in then
If it were just my vote that mattered, they wouldn’t be in office. But I understand the sentiment.
This screws over Trump supporters primarily, so go right ahead.
Dumb take. When the Trump supporters can’t get good internet speeds from their local broadband infrastructure thanks to crap like this, they turn to Starlink, prop up fascist Elmo, and to boot they have it reinforced to them once again that the ‘government is useless, only the Free Market ©® can provide good quality services’.
Why shouldn’t they turn to Starlink if it’s better than their local ISPs? If it offers better service I’d use it too. Objectively, Starlink is pretty great. If local ISPs don’t invest in their infrastructure they deserve to lose customers. I don’t understand your take at all. If you don’t think the folks on the boards of those ISPs aren’t just as evil as Musk you’re not paying attention.
The difference is Musk: 1. Actively funded and orchestrated fascism, ruthlessly cutting government services such that an estimated 14 million people (including 4.5 million children under 5) will die in the next five years due to USAID cuts alone, 2. Is continuing to fund and orchestrate fascism in the form of his new political party, and, 3. Is a Nazi.
So, yeah, fuck Musk and fuck Starlink. I don’t care how great the product is if it funds Musk’s fascism. (And yes, the majority of his wealth comes from Starlink and Tesla.)
Say what you will about Musk, and he is an irredeemable piece of trash, but at least he’s open about it. I’d much rather have my Nazis out in the open for the world to see. The CEOs of mega corps/elites are the real enemy, which Musk is one.
also it will be more expensive in the long run.
I want good things, and this is a bad thing that hurts stupid people more
That doesn’t make it a good thing
I never said I’m happy about this, but leopards eating faces is the only thing keeping me sane.
I want to say “fair enough”, but they’re trying to do a genocide
I kinda think you might have to keep yourself sane by getting involved in the resistance. Phone bank for progressive victory, get involved with your local DSA… Or something
Do what you can, but do enough that you won’t feel ashamed when children ask about it. It will make you feel better today too
Such a predictable outcome by the shittiest people on the planet.
We are truly living in a kakistocracy right now.
that’s a feature of capitalism…
Next up EPA switches to visual inspection of water sources for purity.
Honestly expecting them to defluoridate water any second now, citing quack sources, and will then be aghast at skyrocketing dental issues.
… Dental will still be a luxury insurance, of course.
plus untreated dental diseases, like caries, gingivitis, periconitis can lead to more serious infections. also the immense pain you would feel before it even gets “worst”
They’ll just have AI do it. Can’t afford real eyes.
But…
Real eyes realise real lies…
It’s all in the rhyme there.
Sounds like bullshit coming down the pipes to try and distract us from the news that the commander in chief is a kiddy diddler
Analysis of broadband affordability deemed “extraneous” by FCC chair.
The royal court is displeased with matters of the common peasantry
We will kill the effort with but a word
We will accept no further pleas for explanation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcZxaFfxloo
this interview has an excellent breakdown why progress is so hard, democrats decide if they cannot have everything, and be fair to everyone nothing gets done. its infuriating
Taking us back in time in more ways than one. Thanks MAGAts.
They see what is happening either the electorate turning on Israel, DSA members getting elected, and they would rather sentence the country to terminal technological/economic decline than allow it to proliferate.
Shocker.
So glad I don’t live in that shithole any more.
So shrinkflation to show affordability. Got it.
