Republicans slam broadband discounts for poor people, threaten to kill program
arstechnica.com
Thune, Cruz complain that $30 discounts go to people who "already had broadband."

And pull themselves up by their bootstraps as usual?

  • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@lemmy.mlEnglish
    113·
    1 year ago

    Imagine living in the 2020’s in the developed world and not realizing that internet access is a basic necessity.

    Then imagine being the sort of person who would deny poor people basic necessities

      • Skybreaker@lemmy.worldEnglish
        48·
        1 year ago

        Might want to get that cough checked out. …unless you’re in America, in which case you probably couldn’t afford it.

    • quicksand@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      My mom works with internet people. I remember when I was a kid she was making fun of them for saying internet should be a basic human right. Nowadays, it would be hard to find someone who doesn’t think that lol

    • frunch@lemmy.worldEnglish
      58·
      1 year ago

      Trump 2024, lol

      (Edit: just to clarify–if you want all that bullshit, Trump is your man 🙌)

      (Edit 2: /s would apparently have been the appropriate indicator of my lack of seriousness. TIL!)