Broadband access isn't a luxury—it's a necessity. Dismantling this fund is an attack on equity.
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That's the E in DEI.
The People paid billions for this and ISPs squandered it.
But yes, let's solidify our losses.
Illegal? Shit.
Gotta stop the poor from having access to communication so they cannot organize.
This is why felon mush bought shitter.
That is one reason, yes. Control communications, and you control the people.
this makes me so angry. congress already took away the Affordable Connectivity Plan which helped millions of Americans.
internet service providers should be nationalized and made into a public utility.
internet service providers should be nationalized and made into a public utility.
Bingo
My plan would be to make the network publicly owned and have ISPs purchase access to it. Then they can compete on features and pricing rather than relying on being a monopoly.
It would work a lot like how dialup worked. If you want a bare bones connection you can get that. If you want a big platform like AOL you can get that, too.
This is a play to put a paywall on access to information. Eel-on-musk is going to swoop in and “save the day” by giving out millions of starlink dishes for free - the cost of which he’ll simply take out of those same people’s pockets by getting orangeboi to reimburse him with our tax dollars.
Anyone got meshnet setups we can share? Uses for old phones without sims? Our communication is going to be compromised at a carrier/gov level now that Krasnov is delivering our country to Russia.
I 100% have been looking for a good simple stack. Based on Raspberry pi zeros or similar with some basic commodity Wi-Fi dongles attached to long range directional antennas to set up a high coverage Wi-Fi mesh for our local area. Cheap or 3D printed cases with a small lipo cell, charger circuitry and maybe solar. Hang it up on trees or various places around.
i happen to be prototyping (just drawing and speccing) this with high gain directional 5GHz Wi-Fi radios for my local community. I worked as an engineer in the fixed wireless space for some time, so I think it's definitely viable to setup a few point-to-point and multi-point radios around and get a small metro area network running. at this point I just need to get my hands on the hardware lol
My buddy has been talking up a setup intended to run on meshtastic via something like the T-deck
The latency is going to suck ass but it will be better than the Nazi filtered cesspool which awaits us on the main web. sigh, it shouldn’t have ever come to this
Gotta keep the poors ignorant and uninformed, otherwise they might figure out that you're robbing us blind.
I’d bet a year’s salary that somewhere along the line, eel-on-musk made some promises to a bunch of politicians in 15 states, contingent on making Starlink the only way for poor people to access the internet. He’s literally building his monopoly in the open, as we speak.
I’ll additionally bet that it will be a blatantly non-net-neutral service, with certain ideological sectors/services paywalled or simply excluded altogether - e.g. Truth, Newsmax, OANN, and Facebook included in the base package, Fox for a very small premium, anything to the left of that is a meaningfully pricey “add-on”, and fledgling/competitor/open/ FOSS services and protocols like Bluesky and the fediverse fully blocked.
This is the beginning of a play to fully control the domestic information diet, particularly for less wealthy people.
I’m sure this won’t have implications that are even worse than when he took over Twitter and used it to help the fascists win.
Edit: yes, I’m aware I’m blurring the definition between ideological filtering and “actual” net neutrality, but honestly, this is roughly how I believe it’ll play out, because if you control the uplink, you can show or block the user from whatever the fuck you want, using whatever basis you want. It doesn’t necessarily have to just be a paywall. It’s just that I haven’t seen any non-net-neutral ISPs actually try to do something that blatantly censorious and biased in concert with a government before (the CCP’s GFW doesn’t really apply here). Remember: this is Musk and Trump we’re talking about. They want money and control. That’s their goal. If they can get both at once, they’ll sure as shit go for it.
Net Neutrality doesn’t refer to blocking sites based on viewpoint. It refers to throttling data based on origin/destination - e.g. AT&T can’t cap you at 5GB but allow unlimited traffic to their Max streaming service. They also can’t double-dip and charge you for bandwidth to stream Netflix and also Netflix to get access to you.
I know it’s not referring to blocking particular ideologies.
But it can effectively mean throttling or blocking based on ideology, if the origin of the content is on a site that the people doing the filtering don’t like the ideology, and they’ve packaged things such that there’s a more of a paywall for sites the Powers That Be aren’t too keen on. What I’m getting at is this looks a lot like they’re trying to lock in the majority of poorer Americans and force them to consume only their propaganda, because it’s all Starlink will show them.
And I wouldn’t be terribly shocked if Comcast et al ends up following suit, in the interest of appeasing Trump and maybe getting him to give them more tax breaks, because that’s precisely how our government works now.
https://landfamilyhome.substack.com/p/a-household-guide-for-cyber-defense
Like other crimes, with cyber attacks it is important to identify a motive to understand your attacker better and anticipate their next move. In this attack I believe the motive is a forced cutover of critical infrastructure systems in banking, telecommunications and travel to a centralized model. In plain terms what I’m saying is that DOGE wants to migrate American federal systems to X using the WeChat model where all network and transactional systems are centrally routed and processed.
https://landfamilyhome.substack.com/p/presidents-day-update-a-household
Did you know you can just build a guillotine?
Or you just can use a chainsaw.
A sufficiently pointy stick would suffice to be honest; to give it a neat word, lets call it a Pike
If you remove the poors access to communication they have a much harder time rising up and building guillotines
Yeah, fuck the poor!
I dream of the day we can communicate over some kind of mesh network like Meshtastic. That'd be nice having a nearly ubiquitous coverage for free.
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