The proposal comes after Republicans killed a federal FCC program that provided a $30 discount off the broadband bills of low-income Americans. The Republicans in question claimed they killed the popular program to save money, but a follow up study showed that the program more than paid for itself (by a factor of four) because it helped expand access to remote healthcare, employment, and education.
My state fighting a good fight. We’re flawed, but we sometimes get it right.
I’m POOR and that’s SOCIALISM! REAL FREEDOM is when we make it Affordable for the RICH while making it IMPOSSIBLE for ME to Afford!
Newmam will veto this bill. The motherfucker veto anything that helps the poor. He wants to be president and thinks kissing corporations assses will help him with that.
hes been bought off by the gop donors, and AIPAC, thats why the sudden change. Even whitmer is acting very friendly towards trump right now, twice she has allowed him to use her as a platform. there is a reason why he hasnt won any significant office since his mayorship of sf, and before his governership. he was mostly not very influential.
how much subsidies has the taxpayer provided to these parasites?
why are we paying them more, we already paid for this. make them provide free internet to people who need it. fuck them, they can pay for it.
also, fuck comcast! nepo baby ran company stolen tax payer money, accrued 110b of debt on their balance sheet while gambling during media and streaming wars AND LOSING
now they got no cash, they are in structural decline since they never upgraded to fiber and still selling coax at the same price as fiber offerings. top it off with shite grade customer service.
WHY WOULD ANYONE DEAL WITH THEM UNLESS THEY ARE ONLY CHOICE?!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_L._Roberts
This is a the parasite who did this, a disgusting product of nepotism.
You would think this is a private company but nahh it is actually listed… clown capitalism at its finest!
how much subsidies has the taxpayer provided to these parasites?
thought you were talking about poor people at first lol
when I was working in the residential ISP space some years ago during the FCC credits, we had some basic plans (25/3Mbit, 35/5Mbit) that were entirely or mostly covered by that discount program. it’s by no means a flashy number but it gave thousands of our customers access to broadband, that most of them lost the ability to afford it as soon as the discount ended. go California, I hope this works out because it’s super important for everyone to have broadband
Have you tried doing what NY did? Just handing them lots of cash, time and time again and getting nothing but monopolies in return?
That’s what taxes and public utilities are for. Convert them.
