Something something states rights, lol
Something something price of eggs
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.
The USA isn't run by or for the average Joe. Average Joes are human resources to be mined, plundered, exploited and discarded as their rulers see fit.
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.
Release the Epstein files.
This will most likely hurt rural voters, who overwhelmingly supported Donny Dipshit, the most, given the expense of expanding Internet availability to rural communities.
It really is hard to overstate how badly the average Republican voter shot himself in the vote. Not that they care.
Doesn’t matter it will always be Biden’s fault on Fox and they won’t question it
There's a surprising amount of rural electric co-ops that have pivoted to installing fiber on their own poles and becoming their own ISP. It's honestly impressive, they have done more to tell the major ISPs to fuck right off than any city ever has.
I was trying to find a clear list or map, but this site suggests 250 coops are doing this. Since the coops usually encompass a single county, you can sorta read that as 250 rural counties across America have already told at&t and comcast to kiss their yeehaw ass
Trump rapes more than women, now he has a whole nation.
And sometimes even little girls.
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.
How in the world does this clown even still have supporters?
The US education system has created idiots. The religious cult has done everything they can to destroy actual education.
That is unfair. US Public schools are often okay. US Private schools are sometimes okay. US Home schools... I heard one kid was okay.
The more overworked people are the more willing they are to take intellectual shortcuts and not think independently. One of those shortcuts is to mistake a contrarian opinion as independent thought. Throw in a contrarian leader into an economy where people are overworked and this is the result.
Because Americans like it.
Hey! There are dozens of us who don’t like it! Dozens!
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.
"They might learn more about Jeffery Epstein and the people who spent time with him. Can't have that!"
Comcast must have done a shit ton of bribes this year.
It doesn't take a shit ton to bribe Trump. A compliment and a million bucks will get ya anything.
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.
I guess its time to start hacking and cloning cable modems again. Gotta fight these fuckers somehow.
Violence.
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.
This is like comic book evil Jesus.
Good to see internet providers getting what they bought the media for
Back in high school, I learned that the House of Representatives controlled the governments' purse strings. When did that change to the President controlling? Granted that the current batch of republican reprobates in the House would likely do whatever Trump says, but they don't even get asked or vote on it now.
When did that change to the President controlling?
When the president decided that he can do whatever he wants because nobody with the authority to stop him is willing to do so.
The same guy's leadership killed Net-Neutrality
Aus we are going to get 2g up 200mb down in sept. Currently its a joke of 1g up 40mb down for $110 a month. But the reaosn for that is 2013 and the coalition being shit heels and the australian voter also being a shit heel
Can this guy just fucking die already?
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