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This is forcing telecoms to make business decisions with a racialized lens, ie rebuilding systemic racism. People are objecting to that. If we want to help (a
by zmgsabst 3y ago
This is forcing telecoms to make business decisions with a racialized lens, ie rebuilding systemic racism.
People are objecting to that.
If we want to help (as another commenter put it) “underserved populations that can't get better internet” — we should do that directly, for people of all races.
How does mandating racialized thinking help that problem?
- lexicality 3y agoI have now read the PDF and struggle to understand how you've come to that conclusion. Could you point me at where in the PDF it mandates that ISPs make their decisions based on only the race of the customers?
- Spivak 3y agoYou do have to actually acknowledge that classes of people exist to know whether systematic biases exist between them. Why would you hide pieces of data with an extremely high degree of predictive power? Surely more sunlight is better? It doesn't have to come with any judgement, no one is saying look at these blatantly racist telecoms clearly they hate... checks notes the Vietnamese, but instead, "hey your policy of where you decide to roll out internet has a blind spot." How do you know if the track you're on is inadvertently disadvantaging particular populations if you never look? > we should do that directly, for people of all races And this bill does that, you seem to be arguing for the exact same effect but just worded differently. If you require everything be equal then a rising tide for inner city black folks also comes with a rising tide for rural white folks. It means that a person of arbitrary demographic makeup can be sure that better internet will come to them which is all people all races.
- imadierich 3y ago[dead]
- LightHugger 3y agoThe ISPs already got 42B in funding to build out in these areas and basically just stole the money and ran with it.