Biden to announce $82M for high-speed internet for North Carolina
Biden to announce $82M for high-speed internet for North Carolina
President Biden is heading to North Carolina on Thursday to announce $82 million in new investments to connect homes and businesses in the state to high-speed internet. He will go to the Raleigh-Du…
President Biden is heading to North Carolina on Thursday to announce $82 million in new investments to connect homes and businesses in the state to high-speed internet.
He will go to the Raleigh-Durham area in the critical battleground state to make the announcement, alongside Gov. Roy Cooper (D). The funding comes from the American Rescue Plan, which was the COVID-19 relief package Biden signed into law in 2021, and aims to connect an additional 16,000 homes and businesses in North Carolina.
The investment, according to a fact sheet from the White House, will also create jobs in manufacturing and construction to produce “Made-in-America fiber-optic cable that will build out internet infrastructure across the country.”
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We don't want 82 million in giveaways to Comcast.
We want public Internet that is free to users and run by the government
$82 million goes to Comcast
Comcast fires 20% of staff
Delays rollout by 3-years
Asks for more funding to complete project
I feel like we've seen this show before...
Ding ding ding. I’ll gladly open a holding company and promise to bring high speed internet to the masses. All I need is $82M in funding from the government. Then I’ll delay the installation by 20 years, lay off staff in those 20 years, give myself an $82M bonus, then say I need more funding with a renewed promise to bring high speed internet to the masses. Lather, rinse, repeat. It’s a tale that has been going for as long as ISPs have existed.
then you want a congress that will pass a bill and approve that
Free, and run by the government sounds like ‘highly regulated and restricted’ to me. Like they would have any reservations on sucking up everyone’s data.
Edit: Downvote me all you want, but remember Snowden and the NSA.
You haven't heard of municipal ISPs?
i mean exactly considering that republicans are literally trying to do that with kosa, which republicans are admitting is just to censor lgbtq content.
There are plenty of places in the US with municipal internet. Its not free, but all profits are reinvested back into improving and expanding the service for residents and they compete or beat the cost of businesses like Comcast.
A VPN solves this
Not really anymore. Browser tracking through fingerprinting is quite effective.