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Republicans Plan To Steal Billions In Already-Awarded Broadband Grant Money From States That Attempt ‘AI’ Oversight
We’ve noted how Republicans are busy screwing up the infrastructure bill’s $42.5 billion BEAD broadband grant program. After performatively whining that the program wasn’t moving …
You’ll notice this still somehow isn’t enough for many tech giants or Marc Andreessen types; they want a blanket ban that effectively pre-empts the possibility of any sort of oversight, privacy, or consumer safety provisions that might protect the public from the whims of gentlemen like himself who have proven to have abysmal judgement and little to no functional ethics. Between awful Supreme Court rulings, problematic executive orders, and regulatory capture, the Trump administration has effectively destroyed federal corporate oversight and consumer protection(something that still oddly isn’t getting enough attention in press or policy circles). The choice also exposes the ideological hollowness of a party that claimed to be looking to “rein in big tech” (read: bully them away from content moderating racist, right wing propaganda on the internet), and is now handing them a gift ensuring these companies are more unaccountable than ever.
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