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California Bill Would Require That AT&T And Comcast Make Broadband Affordable For Poor People (www.techdirt.com)
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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.

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[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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!

[–] jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

how much subsidies has the taxpayer provided to these parasites?

thought you were talking about poor people at first lol

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 5 points 2 days ago

i have never seen term parasite applied to the poors on lemmy tbh

reddit investment, landlord and other clown gathering location sure but on lemmy, bootlickers get checked