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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.

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[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

The "forgotten man".

What happened to that and the way all these red-pilled choads appropriated that? Oh right, it is bullshit just like all the other bullshit from Taco and his fellow criminals.

[-] FrostbittenDuck@lemmy.zip 52 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Doesn’t matter it will always be Biden’s fault on Fox and they won’t question it

[-] Alaik@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 day ago

Gotta keep the dumb fucks who voted for him informational isolated.

[-] Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 hours ago

The idiots only visit Facebook.

[-] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

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

[-] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 1 points 6 hours ago

The electric company provides fiber internet where I live. It's much cheaper than previous internet providers. Biggest complaint is that there isn't much technical info available on their website.

Release the Epstein files.

[-] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[-] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] anthony43@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

What if they access / do illegal stuff with your shared internet though?

[-] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

You can setup pihole or a DNS blocker and just block that stuff.

[-] Eldritch@piefed.world 8 points 1 day ago

Or route all traffic through a VPN.

[-] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

This is what I do actually, all via VPN.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Good to see internet providers getting what they bought the media for

[-] Sabata11792@ani.social 20 points 1 day ago

Comcast must have done a shit ton of bribes this year.

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

It doesn't take a shit ton to bribe Trump. A compliment and a million bucks will get ya anything.

[-] Bwaz@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] biotin7@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 day ago

The same guy's leadership killed Net-Neutrality

[-] Red0ctober@lemmy.world 131 points 2 days ago

Something something states rights, lol

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

Something something price of eggs

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[-] aramis87@fedia.io 75 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

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.

[-] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 41 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.

[-] thedruid@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

What the cuck authority does he have to do that? None.

An and Trump is in the Epstein files

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] Mandog@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Can this guy just fucking die already?

[-] criss_cross@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

This is like comic book evil Jesus.

[-] Zier@fedia.io 47 points 2 days ago

Trump rapes more than women, now he has a whole nation.

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 22 points 2 days ago

And sometimes even little girls.

[-] mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] doughless@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[-] Kirp123@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

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[-] refract@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 2 days ago

REMOVE HIS HEAD FROM HIS BODY

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.

[-] mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

man the prices below are disgusting and this is just the home internet. I used to pay $40 - $50 / month with BrightHouse. If we want higher speed, my roomates would chip in and the total price is at max $90/month. After they turn to greedy Spectrum, the price jumped to $80/ month for slow speed. It was so expensive so we didnt go with higher speed....

I thought that was expensive so I decided to ditch broadband and only use my phone. This was when carriers still had truly unlimited data. Well, things worked for a while until they decided to kill that too with BS feature, i.e. you're still unlimited but we'll slow you down if you hit the limit. I paid no minds to this at first, but then the 2G was so slow that you couldnt do anything.

[-] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 29 points 2 days ago

How in the world does this clown even still have supporters?

[-] Zier@fedia.io 19 points 2 days ago

The US education system has created idiots. The religious cult has done everything they can to destroy actual education.

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[-] gravitywell@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 days ago

I guess its time to start hacking and cloning cable modems again. Gotta fight these fuckers somehow.

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[-] Australis13@fedia.io 20 points 2 days ago

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.

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