{"id":65000,"date":"2025-01-30T13:51:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T13:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2025\/01\/30\/ted-cruz-blocks-fcc-plan-to-bring-mobile-wi-fi-to-school-kids-for-a-very-very-stupid-reason\/"},"modified":"2025-01-30T13:52:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T13:52:56","slug":"ted-cruz-blocks-fcc-plan-to-bring-mobile-wi-fi-to-school-kids-for-a-very-very-stupid-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2025\/01\/30\/ted-cruz-blocks-fcc-plan-to-bring-mobile-wi-fi-to-school-kids-for-a-very-very-stupid-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Cruz Blocks FCC Plan To Bring Mobile Wi-Fi To School Kids For A Very Very Stupid Reason"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Final 12 months the Biden FCC handed a brand new rule that will assist carry Wi-Fi entry to highschool children who wrestle to do their homework on-line. Extra particularly, the rule<\/a> allowed faculties to leverage the FCC\u2019s E-Charge program funds to pay for cell hotspots in issues like busses, making it simpler for youths who lack broadband (or can\u2019t afford broadband) to get on-line. The E-Charge price range was not elevated<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Enter the Taco-Bell-fart-in-a-suit often called Ted Cruz, who has introduced a Congressional Review Act (CRA)<\/a> that will eradicate the FCC\u2019s rule. Why? The hassle probably upset firms like AT&T, which might clearly choose it if the poor households\u2019 in query needed to pay them for an costly wi-fi line. The CRA can be utilized to reverse rulings executed inside a set period of time (often 6 months). <\/p>\n

Cruz\u2019s press release announcing his change<\/a> teeters out and in of typical far proper bizarre stuff, together with false claims that the children utilizing these companies are \u201cunmonitored\u201d (in most states these choices include parental controls and monitoring). However this was the enjoyable bit:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe order additionally heightens the chance of censoring children\u2019 publicity to conservative viewpoints<\/strong>\u2014a development not too long ago already\u00a0seen<\/a>\u00a0in lots of districts.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This concept that you simply should<\/strong> be uncovered to MAGA race-baiting lies and bullshit to contemplate your self properly rounded has more and more turn out to be a cornerstone of MAGA authoritarian ideology. The motion increasingly relies on propaganda to befuddle the public<\/a>, as a result of their precise insurance policies (giving wealthy folks tax breaks, letting firms mercilessly fuck folks over) aren\u2019t all that popular<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The \u201cproof\u201d that Cruz factors to is the recent kerfuffles surrounding NewsGuard<\/a>, the corporate that tries to fee information organizations in accordance with partisan and reliability bias. Trumplings are mad as a result of NewGuard generally<\/strong> factors out that proper wing propaganda isn\u2019t dependable or factual (although it has a protracted historical past of generally giving high marks to that very same right wing propaganda<\/a>). <\/p>\n

NewsGuard apparently partnered with The American Federation of Teachers<\/a> to incorporate NewsGuard in a few of its faculty hotspot monitoring software program, inflicting Cruz to apparently undergo some kind of cognitive embolism. <\/p>\n

That is all very very silly for a lot of causes. One being that NewsGuard doesn\u2019t even do this good of a job criticizing proper wing bullshit and propaganda pretending to be actual information. The opposite being that MAGA knobs maintain attempting to assert that any<\/strong> effort to name them on their bullshit is in some way \u201ccensorship.\u201d It\u2019s all a part of an exhausting victimization complicated that\u2019s getting very, very outdated.<\/p>\n

Once more, some native telecom lobbyist very probably bought Republicans to attempt to kill the measure considering it hurts native wi-fi revenues. Cruz and different Republican sponsors of this effort<\/a> shortly started working dressing it up with some bizarre \u201cwe\u2019re being censored\u201d bullshit to distract everyone from their corruption. Now children can\u2019t do their homework. Typical MAGA stuff. Hooray for \u201cpopulism.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tFiled Underneath: broadband<\/a>, e-rate<\/a>, fcc<\/a>, schools<\/a>, ted cruz<\/a>, wifi<\/a>, wireless<\/a>
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