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.”
But WHY???
You don’t want to stifle innovation by adding a bunch of regulations, do you?
/s
Money
Yet another thing that Biden somehow managed to fail us on.
Did he do anything to protect our rights or our freedoms or was it all just incremental budget bills to fund projects that are going to keep their billionaire donors happy?
Edit:
- USPS
- FCC
- DOJ
Just a few American services he refused to utilize and fix.
Wanna talk about other broken promises?
- failed on government option of health care
- failed on overall student loan forgiveness and a failure to use the broad powers the supreme court just granted that office
- failed on increase to federal minimum wage
- shutdown railroad strike and forced a suboptimal deal on to the union workers
- prosecute trump (this one defines his legacy after Gaza)
- funded a genocide
- allowed covid protections that lifted 50% of children in poverty out of poverty to expire
- failed to address rising prices
- failed to leave a marked impact on the everyday lives of Americans
Name one permanent thing that he did that still benefits the majority of Americans today.
Republicans fuck us.
Are the Republicans the problem?
No, it must be the Democrats.
Yeah the Democrats are doing so much to stop the Republicans now 🙄
Definitely seems like they are the warrior of the people.
They’re definitely not answering any corporate overlords or imposing political strategies that are known to fail and haven’t worked in nearly 20 years in order not to offend their donors.
No we can ignore the dramatic shifts the Kamala campaign talk in order to appeal to moderates that resulted in her getting less conservative votes than biden did in 2020.
Let’s ignore the geriatric old man that also promised to run again despite the fact that nobody wanted him to and internal DNC polling predicting it would be an abject failure.
Finally let’s not forget the genocide they funded with open arms and full throated support proving to be the reason that one in three absentee voters who voted in 2020 did not vote in 2024.
Yep let’s just ignore all of the bumblefuckery of the Democrats and how they literally fumbled an election that was on a silver platter.
I mean it’s clear they haven’t learned their lesson my removing David hog and not really supporting Zohran mamdani. The official org president has come out and supported him but notable Democratic leaders still haven’t endorsed him.
No it was definitely the Republicans who only capitalized on the failure of the Democrats to do literally anything useful.
imposing political strategies that are known to fail and haven’t worked in nearly 20 years in order not to offend their donors.
They are doing this with their losing identity politics.
he dramatic shifts the Kamala campaign talk in order to appeal to moderates that resulted in her getting less conservative votes than biden did in 2020.
I don’t know of any such “shifts”. Kamala got fewer conservative votes than Biden because of her gender.
Finally let’s not forget the genocide they funded with open arms
This kind of hyperbole nonsense had 2 results. (1) Things are now at least 5x worse for Gazans than when Biden is president. (2) People like you don’t care anymore about Gaza, let alone care that things are far, far worse now than before. Now that Gaza is gotten MUCH closer to “genocide” than it was is exactly the time people quit paying attention. The media manipulation about Gaza you fell for served its purpose – it helped score gigantic tax cuts for billionaires and so it is no longer needed and has been turned off. Now you have to actively pay attention to specific details about Gaza since the media no longer hypes it. And if you do pay attention to the specific details, you realize that things in Gaza have become far more grim under Trump.
promised to run again despite the fact that nobody wanted him
Myself and the millions of other people voting for him wanted him to run again, at least initially. Of course I would have preferred Sanders more.
I mean it’s clear they haven’t learned their lesson my removing David hog a
On the one hand fuck their diversity rules that removed Hog. On the other hand DNC members should NOT be endorsing primary candidates.
Oh yes let’s just ignore the reality the situation and make up bullshit to support your argument. I love it when we get to this part of the politics thread.
So you didn’t notice that as soon as Kamala got the nomination from the DNC that her strategy entirely changed because she picked up Biden’s advisors and they went with a Do no harm strategy that specifically capitulated to moderates something that was noted by the majority report and most liberal mainstream Media news sources during 2024? I’d love to link you a few articles if you’re interested.
Things are five times worse for the Palestinians now? I’m sorry who was president during the majority of the time the Palestinian genocide was going on? Yeah Trump and the maralogo crowd in Florida definitely did a whole lot to push that genocide forward and definitely did a lot to tie Biden’s hands and there’s definitely not reporting that Biden was literally a godsend to Israel due to not putting any pressure on them. Come on this is well known that Biden did literally nothing about the Palestinian genocide. Stop pretending this is a win, it’s unequivocally not. Biden’s Legacy will forever be stained by the title of “Genocide Joe” oh and the fact that he delivered us directly to Trump.
Yes millions of people voted for Biden but it’s very very clear that the strategy of going out to vote for “harm reduction” was not enough to deal with apathetic voters. Getting people to vote doesn’t mean getting them engaged in electoralism it means getting them engaged with local organizations where they can actually see change affect things around them. then those people might have an interest in voting which deals with the apathetic voting issue. But you don’t get there by focusing solely on getting people to vote.
I’m glad we agree on the DNC and David hog. It is entirely bullshit what the DNC did to him and it’s entirely bullshit that the DNC endorses candidates.
Look I’m not saying that people shouldn’t vote, I am saying that focusing on electoralism as one of the most important or the most important thing is the wrong strategy and will do nothing to help save us from Trump. This is literally been the strategy of the Democrats for the last 20 years and it’s not worked.
So you didn’t notice that as soon as Kamala got the nomination from the DNC that her strategy entirely changed because she picked up Biden’s advisors
Nope. I noticed zero changes from her positions as VP.
Things are five times worse for the Palestinians now?
At least that much for Gazans.
Israel attacks kill more than 80 in Gaza as starvation intensifies
Gaza: 875 people confirmed dead trying to source food in recent weeks
Gazans tell BBC of extreme hunger as UN condemns Israel-backed aid system
Terror and chaos for Gaza’s people now entering the ‘death phase’
Stop pretending this is a win
Stop pretending that Trump actively covering up for Israel that allowed things to become 5x to 10x worse is not a massive loss. YOU HELPED MAKE THINGS MUCH WORSE FOR GAZANS. Why don’t you care that because of the cover Trump is giving Israel, Israel arranged the food distribution system to kill 875 Gazans? Why don’t you care that because of the cover Trump is giving to Israel, Gaza’s people are “now entering death phase”?
So here’s an article from Newsweek and noting the change in her campaign strategy
https://www.newsweek.com/kamala-harris-campaign-leaning-losing-strategy-opinion-1974332
200,000 people have died in Gaza most of that occurring in 2023 to 2024. Who was president during that time?
Whatever other stats you have are irrelevant since the genocide started with Joe.
What’s really fucking awful is that Trump is actually done more to help Palestinians than Biden dreamed of doing and that’s just because Trump is fucking around with Netanyahu not because Trump gives a fuck about Palestine.
Here you want to talk about material changes that changed in 2025?
Well Biden restricted funding to UNRWA directly contributing to the death of probably hundreds of Palestinians that desperately needed that Aid.
Biden threatened the houthis to get them to stop bombing Israel ships where Trump did not give a fuck and made a deal with the houthis as long as they didn’t attack American ships he didn’t care what they did. Israel is currently suffering a major port shutdown due to the houthi blockade which was only possible because of trump.
Trump did secure ceasefire initially when he’s got into office Regardless of what he did and how he did it he did get a ceasefire which is something that Biden failed over and over and over and over to do.
And as ridiculous as Trump is in the Middle East is clear that he doesn’t want a lot of war in the Middle East because he wants to look like a strong tough president that maintains World stability. That’s a whole lot fucking better than Biden’s full-throated support for the Palestinian genocide along with taking every single step to ensure that Israel could not be interrupted committing their genocide.
200,000 people have died in Gaza most of that occurring in 2023 to 2024. Who was president during that time?
This sets the number at 60,000 in Jan 2025. So if its up to 200,000, we know that 140,000 of those deaths were in the 6 months of Convicted Sex Offender Treason Trump. So Gazan deaths per month under Trump were about 4x higher than when Biden was president.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Gaza_war
It literally says below that under Trump the “WORST case scenario” of the entire war is happening right now. You are actively defending Gaza’s “worst case” genocide scenario and supporting its chief enabler in the USA. You don’t give the slightest fuck about anybody in Gaza because you are in reality a right wing fascism supporter.
Gaza experiencing ‘worst case’ scenario of famine, leading aid group warns
How do you remember to breathe when you’re this breathtakingly stupid?
Name a single permanent policy that he put in place that benefits the majority of Americans today.
nothing is permanent if you put a dictator into power who disregards all the checks and balances sweaty
Love the misspelling of “sweety”
Love the implication the Democrats are powerless.
Love the implications that Joe Biden couldn’t have done anything more than what he did.
Still miss the challenge though which was name on permanent policy the Democrats have done that Joe Biden has done. I can name a few from Obama that did have a permanent impact on people but it’s kind of funny I’m drawing at blank Joe Biden.
It’s almost like his administration was entirely political theater designed to seemingly capitulate to populist ideas will not really giving them anything.
It’s almost like his administration was entirely political theater
Lowering ACA premiums and increasing tax credits and increasing taxes on corporations may be “political theater” to you, but it’s real to all the people affected. I would love to see Dems start doing much more of Sander’s programs, but its nonsense that just because Biden didn’t do a huge thing that (1) happen to affect you personally instead of other people, and (2) happen to be something that affected you AND you were paying attention to (e.g. tax credits), that he didn’t do anything.
Lowering the ACA premiums and increasing some tax credits that could be easily Dodge by corporations was quite the accomplishment of one of the most Progressive administrations in American history.
I don’t know why people are so upset about Universal Health Care or the government option that the Democrats were being on about during the 2020 election.
It’s not like a Democrats allowed all of the protections protecting children from Child property to expire in 2022.
Certainly not like the tax credit was a feature of the Trump Administration that Biden then enhanced.
Doesn’t address the very real problems with these services that every day Americans rely on
Lowering the ACA premiums and increasing some tax credits that could be easily Dodge by corporations
WTFLOL. How the fuck are corporations going to take away your legal tax credits? Do you even know how tax credits work?
I fucking hate that every couple of years we just backpedal on everything. So god damn exhausting.
We need a new 4th branch of government that’s in charge of infrastructure and public welfare.
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.
Yes…
But you still get very bad politicians paid by billionaires, who will undermine the president.
Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.
