I wonder how far away we are from bans on hiring racial minorities, women and queer people. Some of the first acts against minorities the Nazis carried out were bans on working for the government and bans on working in education. Eventually the Trumpists will get to that point. Fascists are neither creative nor original. We know what they want and we know what they’re going to do, it’s all a matter of timing now.
Trump calls US program helping boost internet access 'racist'
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Pro@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
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LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Fascists actually are both creative and original, as Umberto Eco has noticed long ago.
About this “digital equity” … They are removing something that was intended to replace monopolist companies’ expenses with government’s expenses. If another company can’t lay wire to some town, then one should investigate why. Not play dumb and pretend one can’t do anything other than throwing more money.
I’ve seen an interview with Bill Joy about solving the problem where you can’t regulate such a complex industry properly, yadda-yadda, the answer is simple - you don’t regulate it preventively, dictating what specifically they should and shouldn’t do, you just calculate damages and fine the companies after. They’ll then find a way to not cause those damages.
It seems sometimes that many people not only blame “capitalist” mechanisms for everything, but also refuse to use them as a weapon in their own favor.
forwhomthecattolls@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I’m not going to nitpick you on your politics since that’s not my strong suit. However, as someone who’s worked 4 years in rural networking and infrastructure as everything from tech support and customer service to engineering and field repair:
ISPs will never install 100G+ fiber circuits to cities 100+ miles from their nearest drop on a whim. They absolutely need a market that (1 needs internet and (2 can afford it. otherwise they’re gonna waste money if they can’t recoup the costs. the thing Trump is rolling back is the thing that guarantees that ISPs won’t kill themselves trying to make infrastructure work.
and yes, of course Spectrum and Comcast could do it and be fine, but because of our dear sweet “free market”, they don’t give a fuck about these small rural places because at their scale (read: monopoly) there’s no reason for them to. This means it’s the little guys - actual small business ISPs, that are gonna be pulling conduit and standing up switching and line cards and distribution backbones and applying for construction permits and FCC licenses for spectrum with the money that comes from programs like these
The little guys can’t do rural builds otherwise because it’s too cost prohibitive without a way for people to pay for the service - too risky.
The big guys won’t because they don’t give a fuck. And if they do complete a build, the service is fucking garbage because they literally leave the infrastructure to rot while saying they’ll be sure to send a tech to look at it, while paying that tech 5 pence and an “atta boy” to fix a rotting mess of cable that should have been decommissioned 20 years ago.
credo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This headline has come up a few times. Everyone seems to miss the glaringly obvious point that calling a program racist because it targets low income families is… racist.
unphazed@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“massive broadband rollout” but they fail to mention that that rollout cost $200 billion and was thirty fucking years ago.
If it wasn’t for the grants given I’d still be on Comcast paying $80/mo for 325Mbps on a 400 plan that was recently “upgraded” for an additional $10/mo without my consent (the upgrade was replacing 300+mi of lines that were destroyed in a winter storm, lines that were installed in the 90s). Now I have fiber for $50/mo, and Comcast can fuck off on their monopoly. Also, funny thing - their save attempt was to drop my speed to 300 and still have me pay $80/mo.
Also, kudos to the reporter for calling him Mr. Trump as accolades are for those who earn them.
desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I wish there was more than one option for (non Satillite) >50 Mbps internet where I live.
forwhomthecattolls@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
my tiny rural hometown in the middle of fucking nowhere southwest United States got 10Gbps fiber to every home in the town last year, and 1G fiber in 2021 as a result of Biden’s infrastructure bill. that fiber cost $45/month for 1Gbit with no data caps - before that, the best we could get was 50Mbit on rickety wireless service. Genuinely changed my life - being able to homelab (more) reliably got me into networking and pays my bills now. I hate how this new admin is so fucking myopic, or worse, malicious
futatorius@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
If it’s racist, why doesn’t Trump like it?
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
When Trump says “racist”, what he means is “doesn’t give enough preferential treatment to whites”
themurphy@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Its not “whites” anymore.
Rich and poor, nothing else.
Zippygutterslug@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Poor white people don’t even exist to Trump
JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
I think he thinks poor white people are evil and defective and that’s why they’re poor.
taladar@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
The funny thing is at this point it is pretty clear that rich people are rich because their empathy is defective.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
suckers and losers, its the same thing he applies to veterans. the day after the 1/6 INSURRECTION, he called all of them Low-class.
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
He didn’t even care about the firefighter that died going to his rally.
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Though Mr Trump called it racist, the words “race” or “racial” appear just twice in the law’s text: once, alongside “color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, or disability”, in a passage stating that no groups should be excluded from funding, and later, in a list of covered populations, along with older adults, veterans, people with disabilities, English learners, people with low literacy levels and rural Americans.
thejml@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
He doesn’t actually know what the team ”racist” means, he just knows energizes his base to hear things called that. Whatever shocks his voters into action and belief is good publicity for him and his cronies.
LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
He knows what we say it means, but he is a eugenicist and believes that white people are biologically superior. He co-opts our language because it fuels a media cycle. The fascists love when he co-opts our language. Its all games of confusion and misdirection and redefinement.
FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
He’s afraid of people being informed by anything other than cable “news”
Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
He simply does not like it because it does not fill the billionaires pockets. Whether he calls it “racism”, “terrorism”, or “gobbledigook” does not make a difference.
D_C@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
tRUMP is a fucking idiot, proves it once again by making noises with his fat fucking pie hole.
rob299@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Of all things to cut, I like Npr, but ok fine. But internet access is so valuable, if there was anything you’d think he would fund it would be internet access. But apparently no. Then again remember that he appointed an fcc leader that repealed net neutrality.
Quazatron@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I will down vote any and all news that referes to something that the Weird Cheeto in command said.
klao@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Quazatron@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Sorry, I was having one of those days, I guess.
I haven’t found a good way to filter by subject, so thanks for the tip, I’ll have a look.
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
In a fascist’s mind, giving money to poor people is “classist”, giving a wheelchair to someone who can’t walk with their legs is “ableist”… 🙄
kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Trump is notoriously a zero sum true believer, despite it being routinely mocked, disproven, and sociopathic. He fully believes that help given to people who are not him is wasteful and harmful to him, at least indirectly.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Really wish that guy on the roof in PA had been harmful to trump.
futatorius@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
He’s not zero-sum with Putin, though. He’s Putin’s lackey regardless of what it costs him or his precious reputation.
LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
They openly deride empathy itself. They only use this language to fuel the media cycle and keep their rabid indoctrinated followers occupied. Its all misdirection. They are hellbent on carrying out their eugencist fantasies and inevitably they will try to do so.
futatorius@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
They just distort the language of empathy to enable their cruelty.