The FCC runs an $8 billion federal subsidy program to help bring phone and broadband services to lower income homes and schools called the Universal Service Fund. The program was historically …
My plan would be to make the network publicly owned and have ISPs purchase access to it. Then they can compete on features and pricing rather than relying on being a monopoly.
It would work a lot like how dialup worked. If you want a bare bones connection you can get that. If you want a big platform like AOL you can get that, too.
This is a play to put a paywall on access to information. Eel-on-musk is going to swoop in and “save the day” by giving out millions of starlink dishes for free - the cost of which he’ll simply take out of those same people’s pockets by getting orangeboi to reimburse him with our tax dollars.
this makes me so angry. congress already took away the Affordable Connectivity Plan which helped millions of Americans.
internet service providers should be nationalized and made into a public utility.
Bingo
My plan would be to make the network publicly owned and have ISPs purchase access to it. Then they can compete on features and pricing rather than relying on being a monopoly.
It would work a lot like how dialup worked. If you want a bare bones connection you can get that. If you want a big platform like AOL you can get that, too.
This is a play to put a paywall on access to information. Eel-on-musk is going to swoop in and “save the day” by giving out millions of starlink dishes for free - the cost of which he’ll simply take out of those same people’s pockets by getting orangeboi to reimburse him with our tax dollars.