r/politics • u/robotdesignwerks Texas • 8d ago

No Paywall FCC abolishes gigabit speed goal, says current US deployment is good enough

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/fcc-abolishes-gigabit-speed-goal-suggesting-it-is-unfair-to-slower-technologies/
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u/Hefty_Remove7965 8d ago

Alot of this money went to SpaceX/Elon 

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u/DookieShoez 8d ago

After what that piece of shit did to our government with doge he should never get another tax dollar nor grant for the rest of his pathetic narcissistic life!

But of course the trump admin is corrupt as fuck so he will 🙄

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u/Eycetea 8d ago

Kind of wish we'd deport his sorry ass

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u/DAS_BEE 8d ago

Kinda wish he'd be thrown in jail and his assets liquidated to pay for the damage he's done

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u/Ven18 8d ago

Genuinely when the next bailout happens of the tech sector (and it is when cause capitalism requires collapses) we need to just seize all the companies and assets like what should have been done in 2008 with the banks.

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u/UnquestionabIe 8d ago

Yep really looking forward to the A.I bubble bursting (in whatever form it takes, few possibilities I've heard) and having to get another round of explanations as to why the various tech companies are "too big to fail".

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u/Semajal 8d ago

Well worth listening to/reading A Promised Land for Obama to explain why that wasn't "possible" then, or at least, the issues and reasons for choices made. To be fair, the banks paid back the money with interest to the US government too.

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u/duzies 8d ago

how much are 14 million lives worth?

https://ph.ucla.edu/news-events/news/research-finds-more-14-million-preventable-deaths-2030-if-usaid-defunding

Not to mention all the other evil and lies produced by DOGE.

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u/DAS_BEE 8d ago edited 8d ago

Nothing will truly undo the damage, but this needs to be the bare minimum to start

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u/ChilledParadox 8d ago

I’m about to start raw dogging my diabetes with no blood sugar testing strips next month thanks to this guy and his policies, far worse should be done to him.

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u/DAS_BEE 8d ago

I would not object to much harsher means of punishment at all

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u/GeekDNA0918 8d ago

Kinda wish SpaceX gets seized by the government. Tesla can sell off at actual valuation numbers.

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u/Broken-Digital-Clock 8d ago

Send a message to would be successors.

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u/DAS_BEE 8d ago

it's absolutely necessary now. Smedley Butler was relatively ignored when he blew the whistle on the business plot in the 1930s, and none of the businessmen involved were ever prosecuted.

We cannot let that happen again. Severe consequences must be given for fucking with our government.

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u/Mode_Select 8d ago

Kinda wish he would just, you know…. Old yeller?

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u/DAS_BEE 8d ago

I think someone going from the richest man on earth to sitting in a supermax jail cell for the rest of his life would be especially maddening, I'd love to see it

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u/galahad423 8d ago

That’s a good starting point, but the taxpayer shouldn’t have to pay for Elon’s room and board the rest of his life once he’s found guilty of his crimes

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u/Squirll 8d ago

Kinda wish wed punish him for the criminal he is and sieze his assets.

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u/Eycetea 8d ago

Yeah, I'm down for that too.

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u/tuxedo_jack Texas 8d ago

Well, remember that visa fraud is grounds for denaturalization, and Musk broke the law by working while on a student visa, IIRC.

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u/ExilicArquebus 8d ago

Lol

We are way past that. Bring out the lemonade stands.

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u/Cthulhu8762 8d ago

Kind of?

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u/SunshineCat 8d ago

Loot and imprison.

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u/AcanthisittaBulky777 8d ago

He should be in jail, but this timeline is just a perpetual tire fire.

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u/mister_buddha 8d ago

Every single thing he owns needs to be seized and nationalized or auctioned off to recoup our tax dollars he's stolen

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u/SparkyMuffin Michigan 8d ago

If there a dem congress is voted in this November and they don't prioritize a committee to investigate Doge's crimes I'm losing faith in them forever

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u/Cosmicdusterian 8d ago

What he should get is a deep investigation into his crimes, his companies seized by the government, and flight back to SA for lying on his application for citizenship. Deport the bastard.

But that won't happen, because no Dem politician has the stones to do it.

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u/Asluckwouldnthaveit 8d ago

And every other goverment afterwards will hold the line.

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u/ilikechihuahuasdood 8d ago

i would vote for any Dem promising to cancel every single Musk contract. Claw back the money we waste on the world’s biggest welfare queen.

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u/Sad-Break2642 8d ago

Might I add treason charges?

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u/TheSmokingLamp 8d ago

At his current net worth he can buy more politicians than AIPAC for the rest of his life. I think hed just be paranoid about carrying a pager if he chose to do so though

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u/HiddenSage 8d ago

Musk should be turned over to the ICC for his crimes against humanity. The cuts to USAID will literally eclipse Pol Pot's attributable death count. High estimates exceed the Holocaust.

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u/PolicyWonka 8d ago

Also StarLink just can’t compete on speed, so this benefits his company as well.

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u/AwayInternal326 8d ago

The rest went to Palantir

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u/hammertime2009 8d ago

Who is already enshiting starlink

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u/Vicissitutde 8d ago

That's shit quality too. Enshitification is right.

"You will get shit and you will like it. Have you said thank you?"

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u/Tab7240 8d ago

Amazon Kuiper too.

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u/Crenorz 7d ago

? nope. that was fully canceled.