The goal seems to be to keep people in rural areas ignorant and/or sell more starlink terminals
Yeah it’s 100% just a Starlink scam. The internet does not make people less ignorant, I promise.
I think it’s much more likely that they want their base to keep watching cable TV
It’s easy to funnel money from the rubes. It was only 2 years ago that I learned some churches will automatically withdraw tithes from your bank account and they encourage you to set up “direct deposit” with them.
The entire economic model of these loons is built on the same principle: anything you use regularly, for “free” or built with taxpayer money, should instead become a subscription service you have to pay for, to a cabal of rich sociopaths. In the meantime, the actual free option is brain rotting propaganda to keep you voting for the rich sociopaths so they can repeat step 1. See: Fox News.
Churches and other religious congregations in the US are NOT funded with taxpayers money (at least, pending Supreme Court decision on the Kansas taxpayer supported Catholic school), and pastor salary and building upkeep are very real costs. If a family values the community having employee(s) and a building, and doesn’t want the hassle of other payment options, automatic debits are a good option to have available.
Things that actually are funded with taxpayer money, yes, they should be free. The Project 2025 plan to kill NOAA so weather forecasts will only be available to subscribers of private companies is incredibly destructive to such a huge number of people, and yes, this broadband decision is in that same awful category.
You misread my comment. I’m relating direct tithing to churches, to things like NOAA. That’s actually an incredible example of what I’m talking about. But I’m not saying churches are taxpayer funded no.
That being said… I’m not putting it past religious fundamentalists to convince Trump to issue an executive order garnishing every American’s wages in the name of tithing to the church. It would be foul, and fucked, but the last 6 months have given me an ample imagination.
Deny social security
ding, ding, ding! close rural offices, make phone support unworkable with additional staff cuts and deadend “AI” phone IVR and finally ensure that online interactions are impossible.
hundreds of billions will be saved on the bodies of dead Americans to help pay for those trillionaire tax cuts.
Probably shouldn’t have called it Digital Equity Internet. I could see where the confusion comes in.
Giving rural old white farmers broadband is racist?
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In Canada, we just give them the money, they twiddle their thumbs for a few years then say they’re abandoning the project and keep the money. Then we wait a few years, and decide to give them more money for the same thing again.
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I believe they’re talking about our telecommunications? The topic of the entire thread?
