The Trump administration is telling states they will be shut out of a $42 billion broadband deployment fund if they set the rates that Internet service providers receiving subsidies are allowed to charge people with low incomes.
The latest version of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) FAQ on the grant program, released today, is a challenge to states considering laws that would force Internet providers to offer cheap plans to people who meet income eligibility guidelines. One state already has such a law: New York requires ISPs with over 20,000 customers in the state to offer $15 broadband plans with download speeds of at least 25Mbps, or $20-per-month service with 200Mbps speeds.
Something something states rights, lol
Something something free market
Small government says what?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X_8E3ENrKrQ
Yes, “states rights”
Small consolation, but I expect Trump voters will be disproportionally affected.
The states and ISPs need to make noise about this, so MAGA knows what they’re missing.
Almost every bit of news regarding Trump is bad. He wants them in the dark.
Yeah, he’s not just grifting this time, he’s actively working against the American people and their interests, as well as our nations. It’s the literal definition of treason
We’ve already paid for nationwide broadband, and the corpos took the money, did a fraction of the work, and called it done. I don’t see what this latest infusion of cash-to-corpos is going to do for the average Joe.
We didn’t just pay for it, we also gave up the public TV spectrum in order to make it happen. That’s why your old-school TV antennas won’t work anymore.
Technically the antennas work, it’s the old tuners that don’t. Plug rabbit ears into a smart TV you’ll get whatever stations are left now.
don’t see what this latest infusion of cash-to-corpos is going to do for the average Joe.
Who gives a fuck what the average Joe wants? If they aren’t in the donor class, fuck 'em.
Release the Epstein files.
You stupid fucks here were crying so hard about “Genocide” and Killer Kamala that you let an actual threat to the world gain the most powerful position in the world. Fuck all of you. This is your fault
Lets not forget the waves of grown-ass men who raged and rallied every time a video game developer like, made a lesbian protagonist with realistic proportions and swore to burn the world down before anyone would tell them what kinds of games they should and should not play…
Who are now utterly and completely silent about porn controls and internet gatekeeping sweeping across the nation as a direct result of the dictator regime they memed into power.
I genuinely would give up video games and internet browsing forever if it meant making some incels shriek in their basement that they can’t fap to My Little Pony porn anymore.
Trust me bro, those freaks you’re talking about will find their MLP Filth (no judgment) regardless. The ironic thing about all these draconian right wing censorship attempts is that it will most likely squeeze out major companies from profits while the high seas gain an ever increasing “market share.” It’s never been easier, and they’ll never be able to stop it.
they’ll never be able to stop it.
I hope they make a strong attempt at trying so that maybe the basement dwellers will put their Guy Fawkes masks on and actually do something productive finally.
Well, at least the genocide is over and groceries are cheaper! We did it Patrick!
Shame genocide is so unpopular with anyone who might vote democrat. If only someone tried to tell the dems that doing fuckall to improve the material conditions of your constituents, expanding republican policies we all agreed were bad when Trump did it, and sending the cops to kick the shit out of the politically activated and organized youth would decrease voter turnout.
The problem wasn’t voter turnout. I get a lot of hate for saying this, but facts bear out. The last three election cycles had the highest voter turnout and the highest youth voter turnout in American history.
This means one or more of several things:
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Genocide was just a performative stance for most voters and they would have voted how they voted no matter what, it’s just a validation for hating Harris so much for aesthetic or tonal reasons that they couldn’t put a finger on.
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The election was rigged in some way, which is very possible but not in the overt way we tend to think of. If you combine enough small-scale tactics of voter-suppression in key areas by slim margins, combined with tomfoolery in voting machines in key areas by just barely enough margins again that enough areas pushed red, and of course large-scale social manipulation thats been at play for years and years now that has given many people the validation to hate minorities and women enough that even people of color voted against their best interest.
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People have let their fucking brains ooze out their goddamn ears across the whole Western population. We don’t see how bad the situation really is, because the people who browse forums are NOT the people who drive to work every day listening to AM radio and working 6 days a week and only get their news from Facebook for an hour every other Sunday night. But it’s bad, it’s very, very bad and I am worried not enough of the thinking people see just how dumb and confused the average median voter is. They literally had no idea if there was a meaningful difference between people like Biden, Harris or Trump. There has been waves of post-election exit-polling and the number one issue people cared about was the price of groceries and they heard Trump scream about it and Harris deliver lines that “sounded like Biden, and he was the one in charge when prices went up.”
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The Democrat party broadly is not an opposition party and many people sense it. They are the enemy character in the WWE spectacle narrative that people are engaged with, and Trump and his band of overtly evil nazis and fascists are more “cool” and people love to hate them even as they hate to love them, because we are unevolved creatures that care more for stories than outcomes.
I don’t think there’s fixing this. I think we’re kind of fucked for at least a generation or two, and that’s assuming it shifts back towards progress at some point. Short of a large-scale disaster that literally cuts off people’s food and luxuries, we have to hunker down and survive. Or leave the country, but the problem is spreading.
it’s bad, it’s very, very bad and I am worried not enough of the thinking people see just how dumb and confused the average median voter is. They literally had no idea if there was a meaningful difference between people like Biden, Harris or Trump. There has been waves of post-election exit-polling and the number one issue people cared about was the price of groceries and they heard Trump scream about it and Harris deliver lines that “sounded like Biden, and he was the one in charge when prices went up.”
Exactly this. Democrats basically went: “I voted for the dems 4 years ago and my life didn’t get better, why bother voting”
Voter turn out was kind if an issue. I get we had record turn out but non voting is still very large
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Yes, its the voters fault.
Its not Biden or Kamala’s fault, for supporting the genocide, for prioritizing arming a genocide over domestic affairs and issues, for prioritizing Israel over America.
God I wish I had this level of intellect. Must be so nice to not have to deal with pesky things like critical thinking or thoughts.
Yes yes it is the voters fault. (Not an American, just see too much of their elections )
Trump was much worse than either Biden or Harris would have been. Harris did repeatedly speak out against the abuse in Palestine and claimed a 2 state solution was the only way forward.
Trump? Literally supporting Israel and wants resorts where the Palestinians are. This is madness to let the voters of the hook for this
Harris did repeatedly speak out
Harris represented the democratic party. When you speak out against they very thing you’re facilitating, you just show your constituents that your words are worthless. Same deal with dems speaking out against ICE in trump pt I and then voting to fund it under Trump and again under Biden.
claimed a 2 state solution was the only way forward.
A 2 state solution has been dead on arrival for decades.
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Trump rapes more than women, now he has a whole nation.
Lmfao or what
Also, this is transparently an effort to push people towards Starlink. They are trying to holistically control the flow of information to as great a proportion of the population that they can.
Pay higher so we can be tracked like in FL, where you have to show ID to watch porn?
What a fucking joke
BTW, whats the typical price for internet access these days in the US? Havent been there since 2024.
I pay $140/mo for ~300 down / 100 up. I found another provider with similar bandwidth for $50/mo, but I self-host a couple things, and they wouldn’t assign me an IPv6 prefix or allow port forwarding. Also, my son complained because his games had 70 ms ping on the less expensive provider.
Edit: I’m in a big city, I think it’s even worse in rural areas.
Wow. I live in Denmark and I pay 150 dollars every 4 months for 1Gb up and down.
You guys are getting scammed in the US.
You guys are getting scammed in the US.
In every possible thing, yes. US citizens are nothing but wallets and wage slaves for the rich.
If port-forwarding is an issue, you can always use a free VPN to reach your self-hosted services. Or if you want to make them public, you can set up yourself a relay on AWS LightSail for less than 5$/month. Or if you want to save as much as possible you can use TailScale or CloudFlare’s Zero Trust network to self-host for free using their server as a relay.
$90/mo for 1Gbps up and down for me in a 30k town for me. I also have two fiber providers, one cable, and wireless as options. I realize I’m more of the exception than the rule. When I first moved here, 50Mbps cable was my only option.
How are they blocking port forwarding? Just put your own router in…
I already have my own router, but they do NAT from the modem with no way to switch to bridge mode.
Ah, fucking assholes.
I had to call my ISP because I specifically requested a modem only, no router, and they gave me one of their stupid locked-down combo units.
If you bitch enough, they will relent.
This was T-Mobile 5G internet, and they only had one modem available. I never bothered looking for my own 5G modem (assuming T-Mobile would even allow BYOD), because my son was already complaining about his ping. And even then, they would still only assign a single IPv6 instead of the full /64 prefix I get with my current provider.
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What the cuck authority does he have to do that? None.
An and Trump is in the Epstein files
Turns out if the worst that can happen is a judge saying “Hey don’t do that” a few weeks later, you have unlimited authority.
They’re probably trying to stop low-income people from having some means of learning about the world (at least until the Trump Administration manages to control their part of the Internet like China does) and reducing their ability to organise en masse.
Having lived in the mid level of an NYC apt block: offer your neighbors upstairs and downstairs their own wifi network off your ddwrt/openwrt router, split the fast internet 3 ways and still pay less than any “low price” plan.
Doesn’t take much to setup, and just ask them to Venmo or whatever. You’re not a landlord, you’re taking from the shit-ass ISPs and spreading the wealth while all of you profit equally.
Don’t forget to bring your own modem every chance you get. Not only to save a few bucks, but the ISP loses a lot of visibility of your LAN when you do.
What if they access / do illegal stuff with your shared internet though?
You can setup pihole or a DNS blocker and just block that stuff.
Or route all traffic through a VPN.
This is what I do actually, all via VPN.
I guess its time to start hacking and cloning cable modems again. Gotta fight these fuckers somehow.
Good to see internet providers getting what they bought the media for
This is like comic book evil Jesus.
