Trumps new Republican FCC Blocks ISPs from Giving Low-Income Families Web Access
 

So much for Trump helping the middle class and the poor.

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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), newly under Republican control, on Friday blocked nine internet companies from providing service to low-income users, curtailing a groundbreaking program green-lit during the previous administration.

Under the new Republican FCC chairman Ajit Pai, an appointee of President Donald Trump, the commission told the handful of internet service providers (ISPs) that they could not take part in the Lifeline broadband program just weeks after the companies were qualified. Lifeline, approved in 2015, subsidizes internet access for low-income consumers as part of the FCC's efforts to recognize broadband services as an essential public utility.

The nine ISPs' status are now considered "pending." Their bids will be reconsidered after "additional time to consider measures that might be necessary to prevent further waste, fraud, and abuse in the Lifeline program," the FCC wrote in its statement, echoing terminology often invoked by Republicans, including Trump, as an excuse to cut safety net programs.

GOPUSA - FCC stops 9 companies from providing federally subsidized Internet to low income people

Trump's FCC Blocks ISPs from Giving Low-Income Families Web Access | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

They (they new FCC and its chair) are also reversing the rulings on net neutrality. Stifling the competition is a high national priority apparently. Long live Comcast and ATT!

For the People!

Congrats to the winners.

why should anyone believe links to liberal fake news?

dumb libs...you whine about alt right, then you post alt-left.

retards.

:1orglaugh

Fuck that let them pay for there own internet i do :2 cents:

Fake news

Responses so far from trump cucks:

1) fake news

2) fuck the poor

Who the fuck cares about the poor? Certainly not you and certainly not me. Certainly no the democrats and certainly not the republicans

"caring about the poor" is just a phrase used by self centered people to make themselves feel good

And it's done wonders for your grammar and sentence structure.

:thumbsup

im sorry. the OP bladewire claims to care for the poor...while he brags here about selling drugs to them.

thanks for the lulz dumb dumb. :1orglaugh

It's total fake news anyways

Really? Please explain to me why should tax payers have to pay for peoples internet. I mean seriously what possible reason a person can not live without the internet. I could see food,water or shelter but internet come on.

lol the left strikes again!

Its really starting to get past the point of ridiculous now :2 cents:

Yea, they are to the left of stalin and are becoming very violent

So coal miners out of work in Appalachia on government subsidies in the middle of nowhere should choose between food & clothes or communicating with the rest of the world?

I get kepping the base stupid and uninformed but this takes it to a new level.

Lifeline service is not funded with tax dollars. It's funded from other subscribers. And it's a program initiated during the Reagan admin.


https://www.fcc.gov/general/lifeline...come-consumers

lifeline needs to be shut down

fuck these freeloaders

No, we don't need or want these freeloaders and low IQ people

I think Internet and probably also certain media should be regulated as utilities, forced not to split up the country into monopolies in violation of antitrust etc,

But, as I recall, Trump promised to help the middle class, not the poor. A lot of people who qualify for Lifeline don't take it because they identify as middle class, whatever their income, and they resent people who grab every handout. A lot of existing welfare programs like this are also brutal to people when they go back to work.

Why do they not just use the free Cell phones the government provides for their internet?

https://s24.postimg.org/vfscxn5yt/ne..._tombstone.jpg

Trump's FCC begins net neutrality attack | ZDNet
Your internet is going to get more expensive and it is not because some poor person got limited internet to function like a person in modern society.

Good

Because it's not neutral

good, less pirates online

I agree 100%

I'm against people that grab every handout. People that work the system take resources from those that really need them and should be cut off and/or prosecuted for fraud.

Our whole system needs to be overhauled so people who need help get ample help to actually help them, not just sustain a poverty existence.

I think subsidised internet for those truly in need that can't afford it is a necessity in this day and age, especially for those in remote places looking for work.