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The biggest politician on the side of the telecoms is Ted Cruz, who has this to say on the matter: > Despite admitting there's 'little to no evidence' of discr

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The biggest politician on the side of the telecoms is Ted Cruz, who has this to say on the matter: > Despite admitting there's 'little to no evidence' of discrimination by telecommunications companies, Democrats are hoping to convince the American people that broadband Internet is so racist they need to plow ahead with government-mandated affirmative action and race-based pricing. The only beneficiaries of this Orwellian 'equity' plan are overzealous government regulators who want to control the Internet

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Here's more about Ted Cruz from Karl Bode on Techdirt. > We’ve also noted how Republicans voted against the infrastructure bill, then have turned immediately around to take credit for the broadband deployments it enables among local constituents. Texas Senator Ted Cruz has been no exception; he’s repeatedly tried to take credit for highway projects only made possible by the infrastructure bill, while simultaneously criticizing the bill’s very existence. ... > If there’s a real problem with BEAD and other federal subsidy programs, it’s that giants like AT&T and Comcast — with long histories of taking taxpayer money for projects they half-complete — will almost certainly nab a disproportionate amount of funding using unreliable maps whose improvement they’ve long opposed. But Cruz doesn’t mention — or care about — that. > Cruz is silent when a Texas-based company like AT&T gets a $42 billion tax break for doing absolutely nothing. He’ll routinely have nothing to say if AT&T is accused of ripping off taxpayers and the nation’s school system. [1] https://www.techdirt.com/2023/09/19/senator-ted-cruz-pretends-to-care-about-wasteful-broadband-subsidies/ https://www.techdirt.com/2023/09/19/senator-ted-cruz-pretend...

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The biggest politician on the side of the telecoms is Ted Cruz, who has this to say on the matter: > Despite admitting there's 'little to no evidence' of discr

by alexb_ 3y ago

hn_acker 3y ago
Here's more about Ted Cruz from Karl Bode on Techdirt. > We’ve also noted how Republicans voted against the infrastructure bill, then have turned immediately around to take credit for the broadband deployments it enables among local constituents. Texas Senator Ted Cruz has been no exception; he’s repeatedly tried to take credit for highway projects only made possible by the infrastructure bill, while simultaneously criticizing the bill’s very existence. ... > If there’s a real problem with BEAD and other federal subsidy programs, it’s that giants like AT&T and Comcast — with long histories of taking taxpayer money for projects they half-complete — will almost certainly nab a disproportionate amount of funding using unreliable maps whose improvement they’ve long opposed. But Cruz doesn’t mention — or care about — that. > Cruz is silent when a Texas-based company like AT&T gets a $42 billion tax break for doing absolutely nothing. He’ll routinely have nothing to say if AT&T is accused of ripping off taxpayers and the nation’s school system. [1] https://www.techdirt.com/2023/09/19/senator-ted-cruz-pretends-to-care-about-wasteful-broadband-subsidies/ https://www.techdirt.com/2023/09/19/senator-ted-cruz-pretend...