Because investment resources in broadband aren't unlimited and go to the areas with the highest return on investment first. The government wants to use its powe

Because investment resources in broadband aren't unlimited and go to the areas with the highest return on investment first. The government wants to use its power to change this, so there will be demographic quotas that determine where investment goes. If one particular demographic groups has lesser access to broadband than another demographic group, under threat of government penalty, investments must be made to equalize the demographic groups. But the devil is always in the details. Beyond the danger of causing reductions in the total investment available for broadband, there's the problem of government defined demographic groups not being homogenous. If a wealthy area of a minority racial group gets high level of investment because it will make a better return on investment than an impoverished area of that same racial group, have things been made better? Or has the inequality simply been moved from racial to financial? And of course, there's the fact that government equality almost always means some groups are more equal than others for various reasons, including the desire to "makeup" for past inequalities or simply one group having more clout with the government agency than others. Additionally, the government gets to decide the groupings for demographics, so some demographic groups get lots of attention and resources while others are considered invalid groupings and ignored.