👍👍 article by @cierranoffke.bsky.social at CNET covers lots of ground including my research on Cleveland, Dayton, Toledo and Detroit with digitalinclusion.org. Tl;dr: Lots of evidence of broadband deployment bias against lower income communities. Zero chance that Trump FCC will do anything about it.

Heard of People's Choice Communications? It’s an internet co-op bringing affordable internet to NYC — starting in the Bronx. Founded by striking Spectrum workers, it's built to reinvest in the communities it serves. 📰 @cnet.com / @cierranoffke.bsky.social www.cnet.com/home/interne...

Building our critical infrastructure around the product of a private company invites extortion of the kind that, in this case, we have already seen from this same company & its CEO (Musk) against Ukraine in its struggle against the Russian invasion. Fool us once, shame on you. Fool us twice...

I wrote about the FCC’s recent decision to roll back all DEI programs — including the agency’s Digital Discrimination Task Force (which wasn’t a DEI program). www.cnet.com/home/interne...