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.
Something something states rights, lol
Something something free market
Small government says what?
Something something price of eggs
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X_8E3ENrKrQ
Yes, “states rights”
Well, states are still free to do as they wish if they are okay not receiving money from this fund.
Lots of stupid going on with this, but I wouldn’t consider it a violation of the tenth amendment.
Don’t pretend for even a second that this could be applied to anything Republicans like. They’d scream “state’s rights!” and block it.
That’s not the argument Republicans make. They say using federal funding to influence state decisions is violating the rights of the state to make decisions for itself. This isn’t a legal argument, but an ethical one. They aren’t claiming actual constitutional violations, rather a violation of the spirit of state independence.
I agree with a lot of this opinion, if they were making it in good faith. However, they obviously are not, as usual. They want states to be free to make decisions about not providing education to children, but they should be forced to not allow people to choose to have abortions, for example. If they were consistent it wouldn’t create so many issues, but they just want to enforce their views on others.
Small consolation, but I expect Trump voters will be disproportionally affected.
The states and ISPs need to make noise about this, so MAGA knows what they’re missing.
Almost every bit of news regarding Trump is bad. He wants them in the dark.
Yeah, he’s not just grifting this time, he’s actively working against the American people and their interests, as well as our nations. It’s the literal definition of treason
He= Christian Nationalists. Project 2025 didn’t come from his delusional mind, he’s just the one with the keys.
The (…) ISPs need to make noise about this
Will they though? The way I see it, isn’t it much nicer for them to bag the subsidies and maximize profit.
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.
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.
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.
Gotta keep the dumb fucks who voted for him informational isolated.
The idiots only visit Facebook.
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
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.
Trump rapes more than women, now he has a whole nation.
And sometimes even little girls.
You stupid fucks here were crying so hard about “Genocide” and Killer Kamala that you let an actual threat to the world gain the most powerful position in the world. Fuck all of you. This is your fault
Lets not forget the waves of grown-ass men who raged and rallied every time a video game developer like, made a lesbian protagonist with realistic proportions and swore to burn the world down before anyone would tell them what kinds of games they should and should not play…
Who are now utterly and completely silent about porn controls and internet gatekeeping sweeping across the nation as a direct result of the dictator regime they memed into power.
I genuinely would give up video games and internet browsing forever if it meant making some incels shriek in their basement that they can’t fap to My Little Pony porn anymore.
Trust me bro, those freaks you’re talking about will find their MLP Filth (no judgment) regardless. The ironic thing about all these draconian right wing censorship attempts is that it will most likely squeeze out major companies from profits while the high seas gain an ever increasing “market share.” It’s never been easier, and they’ll never be able to stop it.
they’ll never be able to stop it.
I hope they make a strong attempt at trying so that maybe the basement dwellers will put their Guy Fawkes masks on and actually do something productive finally.
Well, at least the genocide is over and groceries are cheaper! We did it Patrick!
Shame genocide is so unpopular with anyone who might vote democrat. If only someone tried to tell the dems that doing fuckall to improve the material conditions of your constituents, expanding republican policies we all agreed were bad when Trump did it, and sending the cops to kick the shit out of the politically activated and organized youth would decrease voter turnout.
The problem wasn’t voter turnout. I get a lot of hate for saying this, but facts bear out. The last three election cycles had the highest voter turnout and the highest youth voter turnout in American history.
This means one or more of several things:
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Genocide was just a performative stance for most voters and they would have voted how they voted no matter what, it’s just a validation for hating Harris so much for aesthetic or tonal reasons that they couldn’t put a finger on.
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The election was rigged in some way, which is very possible but not in the overt way we tend to think of. If you combine enough small-scale tactics of voter-suppression in key areas by slim margins, combined with tomfoolery in voting machines in key areas by just barely enough margins again that enough areas pushed red, and of course large-scale social manipulation thats been at play for years and years now that has given many people the validation to hate minorities and women enough that even people of color voted against their best interest.
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People have let their fucking brains ooze out their goddamn ears across the whole Western population. We don’t see how bad the situation really is, because the people who browse forums are NOT the people who drive to work every day listening to AM radio and working 6 days a week and only get their news from Facebook for an hour every other Sunday night. But it’s bad, it’s very, very bad and I am worried not enough of the thinking people see just how dumb and confused the average median voter is. They literally had no idea if there was a meaningful difference between people like Biden, Harris or Trump. There has been waves of post-election exit-polling and the number one issue people cared about was the price of groceries and they heard Trump scream about it and Harris deliver lines that “sounded like Biden, and he was the one in charge when prices went up.”
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The Democrat party broadly is not an opposition party and many people sense it. They are the enemy character in the WWE spectacle narrative that people are engaged with, and Trump and his band of overtly evil nazis and fascists are more “cool” and people love to hate them even as they hate to love them, because we are unevolved creatures that care more for stories than outcomes.
I don’t think there’s fixing this. I think we’re kind of fucked for at least a generation or two, and that’s assuming it shifts back towards progress at some point. Short of a large-scale disaster that literally cuts off people’s food and luxuries, we have to hunker down and survive. Or leave the country, but the problem is spreading.
Voter turn out was kind if an issue. I get we had record turn out but non voting is still very large
People have let their fucking brains ooze out their goddamn ears across the whole Western population. We don’t see how bad the situation really is, because the people who browse forums are NOT the people who drive to work every day listening to AM radio and working 6 days a week and only get their news from Facebook for an hour every other Sunday night. But it’s bad, it’s very, very bad and I am worried not enough of the thinking people see just how dumb and confused the average median voter is. They literally had no idea if there was a meaningful difference between people like Biden, Harris or Trump. There has been waves of post-election exit-polling and the number one issue people cared about was the price of groceries and they heard Trump scream about it and Harris deliver lines that “sounded like Biden, and he was the one in charge when prices went up.”
All those “did biden drop out?” searches the night of the election are haunting.
I don’t understand how so many people are so profoundly ignorant and stupid. I guess a poor educational foundation followed by shit media would do it?
My friends and associates tend to be pretty educated, literate, and wealthy. I don’t know what’s going on down in the depths.
There has been waves of post-election exit-polling and the number one issue people cared about was the price of groceries and they heard Trump scream about it and Harris deliver lines that “sounded like Biden, and he was the one in charge when prices went up.”
Yep. I have heard some rather “centrist” types and a whole lot of low info types ascribing blame for inflation (and the companies using it as an excuse to price-gouge) on Biden, when our country did fairly well compared to international numbers and recovered fairly quickly. Doesn’t matter though - Taco said a bunch of shit about it on his campaign, and these people think Biden pulled some lever somewhere to make their groceries go up.
Doesn’t help that a lot of WELLAXETUALLY types will pop up to do some bothsiderism and talk about “the status quo” and how the numbers are not really the entire picture and so on, further muddying the waters.
it’s bad, it’s very, very bad and I am worried not enough of the thinking people see just how dumb and confused the average median voter is. They literally had no idea if there was a meaningful difference between people like Biden, Harris or Trump. There has been waves of post-election exit-polling and the number one issue people cared about was the price of groceries and they heard Trump scream about it and Harris deliver lines that “sounded like Biden, and he was the one in charge when prices went up.”
Exactly this. Democrats basically went: “I voted for the dems 4 years ago and my life didn’t get better, why bother voting”
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So cheap broadband is more important than supporting a genocider?
Who’s a genocider? Why isn’t anyone calling Trump that but they call kamilla that. When she was never in power. Vice president doesn’t really do anything.
Because it’s too depressing to them to admit both “sides” we have are equally against the will of the people and 100% OWNED by the ultra-rich who OWN - in the most literal sense - the country at this point. We - as in the people being a nation represented in government - fucking LOST.
I’ll help: Trump is a genocider too.
Want to know what a genocider is? One who either directly, or materially, supports a genocide.
Both options were supporting a genocide-er unless I missed the news that Trump stopped it like he promised
That’s my point.
When said genocide is occurring in full force anyway, sure.
Which it is, and has been for some time.
Yes, its the voters fault.
Its not Biden or Kamala’s fault, for supporting the genocide, for prioritizing arming a genocide over domestic affairs and issues, for prioritizing Israel over America.
God I wish I had this level of intellect. Must be so nice to not have to deal with pesky things like critical thinking or thoughts.
Yes yes it is the voters fault. (Not an American, just see too much of their elections )
Trump was much worse than either Biden or Harris would have been. Harris did repeatedly speak out against the abuse in Palestine and claimed a 2 state solution was the only way forward.
Trump? Literally supporting Israel and wants resorts where the Palestinians are. This is madness to let the voters of the hook for this
Harris did repeatedly speak out
Harris represented the democratic party. When you speak out against they very thing you’re facilitating, you just show your constituents that your words are worthless. Same deal with dems speaking out against ICE in trump pt I and then voting to fund it under Trump and again under Biden.
claimed a 2 state solution was the only way forward.
A 2 state solution has been dead on arrival for decades.
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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.
Aside from being run by an absolute asshole, the realities of the speed and lag will luckily prevent me from ever ever getting starlink.
Musk is an asshole, but starlink really doesn’t have issues with speed or lag, at least with my experience having it as a backup circuit in an office environment (not my decision)
Uh, what kind of speed do you need?
Psssst you shouldn’t be encouraging others to use your shitty Internet provider. It’ll only make it slower for you.
They will just dump more trash into the Orbit
symmetric gigabit.
I’m honestly impressed though, if that is starlink. That said, I would never give that nation destroying douchebag my money.
I mean, I just ran the same test and I have 900 Mbps WiFi with 5 ms ping and symmetric upload for $70 per month for life. But importantly I also don’t fund a Nazi polluting the night sky.
Comcast wanted $250/mo for the cheapest service here, and Comcast is also evil.
REMOVE HIS HEAD FROM HIS BODY
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.
Do you get billed every 4 months, or why frame it that way? Or is this a weird danish thing, like your numbers? :-)
I do get billed every 4 months yea.
US here, $70 for a gig up and down. (Which obviously never gets that fast. )
I’ve seen fiber for that price, but my house is like 3 miles away from the nearest fiber location (I have a co-worker that lives within that boundary).
If port-forwarding is an issue, you can always use a free VPN to reach your self-hosted services. Or if you want to make them public, you can set up yourself a relay on AWS LightSail for less than 5$/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.
I’ve been port forwarding for decades at this point. I just recently found out about tunneling your traffic through relays like that. Pretty neat stuff. Glad I can finally ditch my isp and switch to another without worrying about their port forwarding policies
$90/mo for 1Gbps up and down for me in a 30k town for me. I also have two fiber providers, one cable, and wireless as options. I realize I’m more of the exception than the rule. When I first moved here, 50Mbps cable was my only option.
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How are they blocking port forwarding? Just put your own router in…
I already have my own router, but they do NAT from the modem with no way to switch to bridge mode.
Ah, fucking assholes.
I had to call my ISP because I specifically requested a modem only, no router, and they gave me one of their stupid locked-down combo units.
If you bitch enough, they will relent.
This was T-Mobile 5G internet, and they only had one modem available. I never bothered looking for my own 5G modem (assuming T-Mobile would even allow BYOD), because my son was already complaining about his ping. And even then, they would still only assign a single IPv6 instead of the full /64 prefix I get with my current provider.
I pay $70 for a gig
$90 for a gig
I pay $55 for a gig. I got a promo rate though.
I’m in Tokyo and pay $40 for 10gig fibre… actual speed is about 6-7gig up and down.
I wish lol
I’m gonna need to see your speedtest.net link
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!
It’s that ret@rded 37%. He will never lose that 37%. They are just too fucking stupid.
27%
Poll I saw about 2 days ago said 37%
Show me.
it took me 5 seconds to google this.
this says 38% https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/06/president-trump-approval-rating-poll/85546281007/
aggregate polling actually shows a shockingly higher approval rating. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
what should really worry you here is that his approval rating is considerably higher at this point in his second term than at the same point in his first.
If you believe “USA today”
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.
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!”
I guess its time to start hacking and cloning cable modems again. Gotta fight these fuckers somehow.
Again? I didn’t know this was even a thing
Yeah, used to be a big problem in some places like florida back when you could just ovveride dns settings and get free internet off any modem. It requires custom firmware and other things these days that make reselling such a free hookup impractical, but thats not gonna stop me from helping people do it for free.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_Haunt
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncapping
https://archive.org/stream/Hacking_The_Cable_Modem_2006/Hacking_The_Cable_Modem_2006_djvu.txt
