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$42.5 Billion Broadband Grant Program Being Rewritten To Benefit Elon Musk

www.techdirt.com $42.5 Billion Broadband Grant Program Being Rewritten To Benefit Elon Musk

We’ve often noted how there are $42.5 billion in broadband grants headed to the states courtesy of the 2021 infrastructure bill. The GOP voted against the bill, but have repeatedly turned aro…

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$42.5 Billion Broadband Grant Program Being Rewritten To Benefit Elon Musk

www.techdirt.com /2025/03/12/42-5-billion-broadband-grant-program-being-rewritten-to-benefit-elon-musk/

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"It’s also worth noting that in many instances they’re renaming the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) to strip the word “equity” out. Because, you know, racist kakistocracy."

So it will be BAD, fitting....
- kakistocracy is so apt, it might as well have been created for trumps terms in power.
  
  Reminder that this is still capitalism. Capitalism gave Elon Musk the wealth and power to destroy American democracy so the world's most successful capitalist destroying democracy is capitalism in action.

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