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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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[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 322 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I fucking hate that every couple of years we just backpedal on everything. So god damn exhausting.

[–] ohellidk@sh.itjust.works 124 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It takes so long to fix everything, too!

[–] timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 81 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] muffedtrims@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

Propaganda is a hell of a drug

[–] MIDItheKID@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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!

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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

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[–] kingofras@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

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://youtu.be/AaKFx5rxdmA

https://smartelections.us/

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.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 14 points 1 week ago (4 children)

We need a new 4th branch of government that's in charge of infrastructure and public welfare.

[–] ronigami@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 101 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Such a predictable outcome by the shittiest people on the planet.

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[–] Mobiuthuselah@mander.xyz 80 points 1 week ago (13 children)

Didn't ISPs just get tens of billions of dollars to expand high-speed connections to rural areas? For the second time?

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 55 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No that was just free money we gave them.

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[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 75 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Next up EPA switches to visual inspection of water sources for purity.

[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They'll just have AI do it. Can't afford real eyes.

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[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 58 points 1 week ago (10 children)

10 years from now USA is gonna be a 3rd world country with all these cuts.

[–] TuffNutzes@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Trump was always obsessed with "shit hole countries". Now he's turning the US into one of them.

[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

He wants us to be exactly like Russia. Complete shithole company run by the oligarchy, who live lavish luxury lives.

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[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not even gonna take 10 years. By the end of Spray Tan's term the country is gonna be a complete toilet.

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[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 57 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Why does everything have to be so fucking political?

Faster broadband is good. Who fucking cares what political party?

[–] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But corporations don’t want to spend money on customers, so they’d rather keep customers on slow speeds and charge the same price.

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[–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Sprocketfree@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We should not be giving private entities cash without rigid metrics and timelines. In fact, we should claw back what we've given them.

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] SheeEttin@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 week ago

Well yeah, we all know it's good. That's why Republicans want to take it away.

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[–] venusaur@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago

Keep poor people in the dark or they won’t vote for you.

[–] lemmy12369@midwest.social 33 points 1 week ago (2 children)

other country: lets bring in gig speeds Japan: futile we have and are testing terrabytes.. America: i like cheese.. govt cheese

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[–] Skymt@feddit.nu 32 points 1 week ago (5 children)

From a Swede with gigabit internet: didn't you Americans already give a lot of money to your ISPs to build fiber? Maybe time to demand a ROI?

[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Please don't remind me.
I wish these companies would all just go bankrupt and die already.

[–] TheCleric@lemmy.org 14 points 1 week ago

Kinda hard when they’ve gone full mafioso and split up the country into territories so that we only have like one choice and have to be a customer. Because capitalism runs on no competition and monopolies, right?

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[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago

FCC: Doing our job deemed extraneous.

[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

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

[–] CocaineShrimp@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 week ago

Sounds like bullshit coming down the pipes to try and distract us from the news that the commander in chief is a kiddy diddler

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Broadband quality:

Great

Good

Decent

Whatever

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

Such great. So many again

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Get ready for your shitty internet to cost even more.

[–] audaxdreik@pawb.social 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 13 points 1 week ago

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!

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