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The goal seems to be to keep people in rural areas ignorant and/or sell more starlink terminals
Yeah it's 100% just a Starlink scam. The internet does not make people less ignorant, I promise.
I think it's much more likely that they want their base to keep watching cable TV
It's easy to funnel money from the rubes. It was only 2 years ago that I learned some churches will automatically withdraw tithes from your bank account and they encourage you to set up "direct deposit" with them.
The entire economic model of these loons is built on the same principle: anything you use regularly, for "free" or built with taxpayer money, should instead become a subscription service you have to pay for, to a cabal of rich sociopaths. In the meantime, the actual free option is brain rotting propaganda to keep you voting for the rich sociopaths so they can repeat step 1. See: Fox News.
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Deny social security
ding, ding, ding! close rural offices, make phone support unworkable with additional staff cuts and deadend "AI" phone IVR and finally ensure that online interactions are impossible.
hundreds of billions will be saved on the bodies of dead Americans to help pay for those trillionaire tax cuts.
Giving rural old white farmers broadband is racist?
let them eat starlink!
This is probably the whole point.
This should be written down for the saying of this time in history
Stupid is as stupid votes.
GodDAMN! This has been getting a shit tonne of mileage lately!
So it went from socialist to racist to offer incentives to companies to put broadband in rural areas. Boy sure I'm glad there's somebody at the top to tell us these things. Here I thought it was just a sensible thing to do all this time. Silly me.
Probably shouldn't have called it Digital Equity Internet. I could see where the confusion comes in.
They need to keep their base stupid.
Doesn't seem like they need to work very hard at it tbh.
Fair point
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internet access is woke too now 😎
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This will be just great for the Appalachian region J.D. Vance was playing up as his homeland.
They could have really used that money to get some broadband deployed and a workforce trained up: https://communitynetworks.org/content/connect-humanity-project-aims-bring-broadband-rural-appalachia
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I suppose this means he hates the Rural Electrification Act and wants to retroactively rip out the bumpkins' power lines. I should probably shut my pie hole before I inadvertently give these malicious assholes ideas.
Or do give them ideas, so the rurals can have the day they voted for and maybe, just maybe, figure out billionaires despise them.
calls digital equity program “racist and illegal”
I don't see why he would kill anything over that. Those are like his two favorite things.
And this predominantly benefits poor white people. I think he just saw "equity" and assumed it helped brown people.
Did he just look at the word "equity" and assume it somehow helped minorities? That's the only reason I can imagine him calling it racist.
Yes, yes that is exactly what has been happening. This is not the only example of them doing Ctrl+f and ending grants.
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But... but... rural is white Trump country. They need the interweb tubes.
Musk is rolling out a new tier of cheap starlink, lower bandwidth but also zero-tiers certain providers (think Fox News).
I wish I was being sarcastic. They're worried they need to bridge the gap from talk radio.
All those red counties can keep enjoying paying over $100 a month for terrible local cable company "100mbps" (20mbps in reality) download speeds with 56k upload. That's the great America they wanted after all. Meanwhile in my very blue city I pay $60 a month for symmetric gigabit.
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In Canada, we just give them the money, they twiddle their thumbs for a few years then say they're abandoning the project and keep the money. Then we wait a few years, and decide to give them more money for the same thing again.
They’ve already done that here once before in the US, too.
10 billion dollars to redefine 5g as 1/10th it's original bandwidth and then not meet the standards of providing it anyway.
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Have fun watching diabetes commercials on cable while the rest of us enjoy what we want on streaming platforms.
Not even going to bother addressing the veteran stuff. Trump hating the military and its personnel is old news and his voters couldn't give a flying fuck.
Internet access is racist and illegal! Thanks conservatives!
If they only know twitter then you could understand a bit the confusion.
It must literally just be the word "equity".
I really hope that someone is collecting all the laws that Trump is making up on the fly so that we can compare the documents; at least do a word count of Trump's collected laws and covfefe vs the Constitution.
Racist? His main voter base are right winged fucks in the rural areas
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His boyfriend must be complaining because it doesn't benefit Starlink or something
Does this create communication blund spots? Because that's dangerously good preperation for gulags or something
Just a couple weeks ago, with the announcement of orders being opened to the public, people in my (pretty red) area were celebrating the expected arrival of broadband from these grants,
Wonder if its going to happen now. 🤦
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