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We Investigated Starlink. The Corruption We Found Will Shock Youyoutube.com
6 points•tukunjil•about 6 hours ago•2 comments•
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freehorseabout 5 hours ago
I don't think that "multibillionaire gets big chunk of the money intended for building durable infrastructure due to being friends with/funding the president, resulting to no infrastructure being actually built" is shocking (anymore) but it was still worth watching.
bell-cotabout 5 hours ago
Last I heard, plenty of non-satellite internet providers have also taken billions from those programs, then pretty much ignored the associated obligations.

And it's not a "Trump" issue, either. The rot also thrived under Biden.

theoreticalmal11 minutes ago
Wasn’t Kamala Harris part of a big push to provide better internet to rural American? I thought I remembered reading $25B in federal funding with essentially 0 marginal positive outcome
raisedbyninjasabout 2 hours ago
That pattern extends back to the Clinton administration.
hypercube33about 4 hours ago
Over the last 30 years there have been plenty of attempts if you will to build out fiber. Some did lay fiber, others seem to have not.

The Biden bill did get my parents fiber in rural Wisconsin because the local ISP actually wanted to deliver Internet.

I think the government was hoping that raising and holding providers accountable with the bandwidth tests would have solved that but enforcement is one place this is falling down.

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