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Supremes Reject Radical Right Wing Effort To Destroy $8 Billion FCC Rural Broadband Subsidy Program
In a day full of terrible Supreme Court rulings there was one bit of good news: in their FCC v. Consumers’ Research ruling, the court rejected a bid by radical right wing Republicans to destr…
The organization (which maintains a part of their website tasked with tut-scolding “woke” companies) sued the FCC claiming that the Universal Service Fund (USF) was unconstitutional. The USF applies a small surcharge on traditional phone lines to fund broadband expansion to rural unserved locations (of which the U.S. has a lot thanks to rampant telecom monopolization and the corruption that coddles it). But in a government where the expansion will be literally written by AT&T lawyers and overseen by weird lackeys like Trump FCC boss Brendan Carr, I think assuming this will be done and enforced competently and ethically is delusional wishcasting.
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