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$42.5 Billion Broadband Grant Program Being Rewritten To Benefit Elon Musk

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat⁩ to ⁨technology@beehaw.org⁩

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/12/42-5-billion-broadband-grant-program-being-rewritten-to-benefit-elon-musk/

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  • Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “It’s also worth noting that in many instances they’re renaming the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) to strip the word “equity” out. Because, you know, racist kakistocracy.”

    So it will be BAD, fitting…

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    • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      kakistocracy is so apt, it might as well have been created for trumps terms in power.

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      • Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Reminder that this is still capitalism. Capitalism gave Elon Musk the wealth and power to destroy American democracy so the world’s most successful capitalist destroying democracy is capitalism in action.

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