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Biden Administration Backs Strong Rules To Close Digital Divide
The Biden administration has urged the FCC to adopt strong rules to redress historic shortfalls that have left some communities lacking adequate broadband service. From a report: The position sets up a possible clash with large broadband providers that have warned the FCC, which is set to produce rules by next month, against unnecessary regulations. Clear rules are needed to close the digital divide that leaves millions without adequate broadband, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration said in a statement. The Commerce Department unit advises the president and develops internet policy. "Strong rules are needed to remedy unequal access to internet service, no matter what the cause may be," said Alan Davidson, the assistant secretary of commerce for communications and information, who is also the NTIA's top official. "Rules that combat digital discrimination will bring lasting relief to vulnerable communities that historically have been left behind online." The FCC is considering regulations to prevent and eliminate digital discrimination of access based on income level, race and other factors, according to Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel. Broadband advocates have told the agency they want deep changes that will steer spending into cities. Some urban neighborhoods have suffered from disinvestment dating back to redlining decades ago, when government-aided discriminatory lending patterns starved neighborhoods of housing resources. Many of those areas still aren't prosperous, and haven't seen network upgrades.
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I don't see any particular reason to involve that yahoo. He's completely non technical, never having invented anything himself. He's not a terribly good businessman either, look at what he did with Twitter. His only successful businesses relied heavily on gov't contracts (SpaceX) and a gov't program to pay him to build the cars the big 3 didn't want to (e.g. the carbon credit and fuel efficiency credit schemes).
Take away all that gov't money and Musk would be running minor scams off the cash he blundere-
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by turning them into expensive luxuries instead of daily drivers. Elon did that. I've pointed this out elsewhere (and I wasn't the 1st to make the observation) but the high tax credits couple with the gov't subsidies Tesla relied on discouraged anyone from putting anything but "compliance cars" out in the market.
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but I don't like any billionaires. It's like we as a country collectively forgot the phrase "never ask a man how he made his first million dollars".
The Internet means I know his history. I know about the apartheid emerald mines. I know he's a college drop out given a phony degree so he could stay in the United States. I know that without the massive gov't program to funnel kick backs from gas powered car companies Tesla would've went under and he would've gone to prison for false SEC statements, etc, et
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You know that your entire story is factually incorrect, right? He's given interviews at length where he knows the details of the rocket tech. He never got any support from his dad past age 18, let alone the vaunted "emerald mine" that nobody (including Elon) has ever seen that supposedly his dad has some share in, not that it helped Elon any. Few people have ever founded multiple companies with that much success and Tesla literally made electric cars cool instead of an awful boondoggle the industry wante
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You're serious? Let me laugh even harder.
He hasn't founded anything except "X", which Paypal bought, realized was worthless, and then fired him while cutting their losses. He's Steve Jobs 3.0. Just another grifter with a reality distortion field.
Space X is just another company he bought. Without the gov't contracts it doesn't exist. It's there because we privatized a bunch of things NASA used to do. It's another example of us idiots letting the 1% skim 10-20% off our tax dollars.
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it's cheaper to have the gov't do it. Much, much cheaper. The gov't numbers get inflated a bit because that's how we do socialism, but the actual costs are much lower because we don't have a billionaire parasite getting his 20% off the top of my taxpayer dollars.
As for the cost of developing it, I paid for that. All of Space X's fundamentals came from NASA, and the engineers cut their teeth over there. Any of the new stuff is paid for by gov't contracts.
Gov't is more efficient that private industry
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Wired is stupid.
No, it's not. It's not susceptible to interference, doesn't cause interference, and it's more scalable.
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Everything about wired is vastly superior to wireless, except your ability to use it. The idea that we should just abandon wired is so ignorant there is certainly an ulterior motive.
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Wired infrastructure costs more money. Avoiding rent seekers with wired is impossible. Follow the money.
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Wired or wireless, it will involve some sort of infrastructure that has to be paid for somehow. Rent seeking doesn't vanish just because the wires do
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No, but the possibility of multiple infrastructures exists in wireless, which does not exist (really) in wired, at least at a residential level.
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I have both copper and fibre cables to my house, although only the fibre is in use.
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Hell I have two infrastructures of copper and one of fiber, but they're owned by at most two companies - Verizon and Comcast, and the Comcast infrastructure is anemic. It might as well just be one.
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The solution to that is simple - legislate that the 'last mile' infrastructure can only be owned by municipalities and/or states/provinces. Then you have the freedom of choice that 'multiple infrastructures' provide, without the attendant problems. What about the investments which the large providers have made in the infrastructure? Eminent domain, baby! If it can be used to take property from individual homeowners, it can certainly be used to make predatory corporations less socially damaging.
Corporate own
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Right, if you've got a fast protocol that's wireless, it can be even faster when wired. Remember, most wireless goes through actual wires in order to be routed further than the antenna will reach.
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Wireless is stupid when wired is available.
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I am going to daresay that wired is a privilege. Wired ethernet "just works" for the most part. One may not get the rated speed, but even with consumer level equipment, the network speeds are good enough for someone to do their daily work. I can have a ton of PCs on an Ethernet switch, and still have bandwidth, especially if a lot of the traffic is internal and not communicating anywhere else than the switch fabric.
Wireless is a different story entirely. There are just so many hosts and connections it can do, no matter how wide the spectrum, and how many technologies like frequency-hopping or spread-spectrum items are used. You get enough people, and the airwaves will wind up saturated. Then, there is the ease of jamming Wi-Fi.
Wired is more secure as well. To tap a physical wire takes far more work than just sniffing what is going over the air.
Overall, if a device can be plugged in, I do that. It is simpler, more reliable, and harder to attack.
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Where I live, the only choice for TV is satellite, and I can either use that for Internet or ADSL. I prefer the latter, as I neither like nor want the built in lag of satellite. Also, we have lots of thunderstorms up here and it's not at all unusual for our TV to keep pausing to refill its buffer during a storm or lose the connection completely, while the ADSL Just Keeps Working. We may not have the fastest connection, but we don't do lots of huge downloads or on-line gaming so it's easily fast enough fo
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Wireless electronics is like pipeless plumbing (porta potties)
It can be made to work when necessary
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Shut up, stupid. I'm wired... and wired is, 100% of the time, a hell of a lot faster than WiFi, and it offers the benefit that assholes like you can't connect to my network.
Oh, and wires isn't bothered by weather.
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I'm talking about for enabling universal access not network speed. Wireless is the fastest and most efficient way to get the most people access. Wired is more expensive and bureacratic almost anywhere it is.
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