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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.”
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I fucking hate that every couple of years we just backpedal on everything. So god damn exhausting.
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.
At this point it’s hard to remember the good old days when we picked the second worst
Yes…
But you still get very bad politicians paid by billionaires, who will undermine the president.
Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.
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?
And money. Infrastructure is all cost, no profit, no income source, and damn expensive.
A separate branch only solves the political will half of the infrastructure problem, but we also need a consistent, large budget to actually keep up
And personally I’d vote to give it all to Amtrak and transit. Every time we add a highway or more lanes to a highway, we’re increasing infrastructure costs that we already can’t afford to keep up with. Why are we still digging this hole deeper?
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.
It takes so long to fix everything, too!
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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!
We had never actually fixed any of the shit that Reagan broke. They kept doing more of the same stuff he had started
The religious right latching on to Reagan as the patron saint of supply-side economics was a serious fucking problem that was completely ignored (and in fact lauded in tons of circles) at the tone. And still is, largely.
It took forever to get it to where it is, and it still needed a lot of improvement
It not just took forever to get to where we were but it seems like most of the good things Biden was able to get passed were long term investments. Money spent for something that would help in ten years.
Now it’s money spent and thrown away.
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
If only we could chart that and see which political party is in charge at which points, and then never vote for the one that puts us here ever again… Oh well
We can though, first time was the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 with funding being released in 2010. D president, D Senate, D house.
By 2012 it became obvious that the commitment lined out in the 2009 bill weren’t going to happen and a meek attempt to claw back the funds was made. D president, D Senate, R house.
2021 sees the access broadband act. D president, D Senate, D house.
By 2025 it became obvious that the commitment lined out in the 2021 bill weren’t going to happen. R president,
DR Senate, R house.The only constant is a Democratic Senat so clearly that’s the problem! Right?Edit: wrong session for 2025 caucus. It’s all Rs there.
In 2025 the Senate is also controlled by the Republicans. The have complete control of all 3 branches.
My bad, thanks for catching that I was looking at 118th caucus not 119th. I thought I just misremembered which of those pesky other parties were part of which caucus.
I know, I was being facetious. I appreciate the sources to back it up though
With the way American politics are at the moment I interpreted that as a “only the Republicans are the bad guys” and wanted to make it abundantly clear that is not the case.
So shrinkflation to show affordability. Got it.
So glad I don’t live in that shithole any more.
Say it with me people.
Seperate infrastructure and service!
If the companies responsible for laying cable and wires weren’t tied to a single brand we’d instantly break the monopolies by town that we currently have. They would also focus on maintaining the infrastructure and growing the network instead of the profits going elsewhere.
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.
so they’d rather keep customers on slow speeds and charge the same price.
Be fair. The prices go up.
The wedge is already in place. They just keep pounding on it. This is 100% what happens when corporations and governments become one.
Well yeah, we all know it’s good. That’s why Republicans want to take it away.
It’s especially funny how Republicans are against regulations because according to them, it stifles progress and innovation. So why are they against regulations that try to force progress and innovation?
Of course we know why, because it’s all a lie. They just want more money for the 1%. How there is even a single (non-1%'er) idiot left that votes for them is waaaay beyond me.
Why does everything have to be so fucking political?
The problem with ignoring politics is that politics is never going to ignore you.
Why does everything have to be so fucking political?
When will people who say shit like this wake the fuck up and realize that life is political?
Grow up and deal with it like everyone else, fucking cowards.
and deal with it like everyone else
no, not like that, that doesn’t do anything useful
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.
Keep poor people in the dark or they won’t vote for you.
But WHY???
Money
You don’t want to stifle innovation by adding a bunch of regulations, do you?
/s
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
Taking us back in time in more ways than one. Thanks MAGAts.
MAGA is really MANG
Making America Not Great
Get ready for your shitty internet to cost even more.
Thank God we’re also eliminating cheap solar panels from China. Who wants an energy source so unreliable. It literally didn’t even shine for most of the entire time. Sure it’s been lit for just a few million years but whatever are you gonna do when it eventually runs out of helium and hydrogen?
I’d prefer the new ford trash diesel hybrid…just start the engine on gasoline, switch to diesel, then just dump your trash for that week in the back and wait for the big ass black plume to reduce yo just a healthy soot. It can get 23miles per trashcan!..sorry, 2.3 downhill miles. Isn’t it great? Mr.TrashyBurn!
Sounds like bullshit coming down the pipes to try and distract us from the news that the commander in chief is a kiddy diddler
Shocker.
A modem walks into a bar. The bar tender says:
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‘a’ is 01100001Such a predictable outcome by the shittiest people on the planet.
People is stretching it. They are subhuman pedophiles all
Well, they all started as humans and then turned into twisted creatures by staggering amounts of wealth and luxury.
We are truly living in a kakistocracy right now.
that’s a feature of capitalism…
