The FCC’s Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), part of the 2021 infrastructure bill, currently provides 23+ million low-income Americans a $30 broadband discount every month. But those 23 million…
Not that I disagree with you, but the internet has also made a massive amount of people uninformed and vulnerable to the internet misinformation. See: any point in the last 20 years.
It seems that this is more about killing a popular program that Dems are responsible for, and could point to during election season as a reason to vote for them again.
No internet means the gullible masses will remain uninformed and vulnerable to manipulation.
The GOP wants a solid foundation of uneducated poor to exploit as the base workforce and voter base.
Cheap idiots to fuel their companies.
Not that I disagree with you, but the internet has also made a massive amount of people uninformed and vulnerable to
the internetmisinformation. See: any point in the last 20 years.Yeah “cheap broadband internet to rural America” basically means increasing the market for Fox News in HD.
Fair.
Smartphones are more responsible for the widespread distribution of misinformation than the internet itself.
It seems that this is more about killing a popular program that Dems are responsible for, and could point to during election season as a reason to vote for them again.
The opposite thing happens more often