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Trump Decides to Punish Rural America
With Slower Internet
May 15
Trump thinks providing poor and rural
Americans with high-speed internet is
“racist” and “woke.”
The president has decided to end the
Digital Equity Act, Biden-era legislation
that aims to expand high-speed internet
across the country.
“I have spoken with my wonderful
Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick,
and we agree that the Biden/Harris so-
called ‘Digital Equity Act’ is totally
UNCONSTITUTIONAL,” Trump wrote on Truth
Social Thursday. “No more woke handouts
based on race! The Digital Equity
Program is a RACIST and ILLEGAL $2.5
BILLION DOLLAR giveaway. I am ending
this IMMEDIATELY, and saving Taxpayers
BILLIONS OF DOLLARS!”
The Act does not explicitly mention
race. All it says is that people can’t
be blocked from using the Act “on the
basis of actual or perceived race, color,
religion, national origin, sex, gender
identity, sexual orientation, age, or
disability.” This language is straight
from the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The law provided many red states with
grants to create and implement plans
to make internet access more accessible.
These plans have already been approved
in conservative states like Indiana,
Alabama, Arkansas, Iowa, and Kansas. >https://newrepublic.com/post/195075/trump-high-speed-internet-program-
racist
As usual Trump is right! It's about time that the USA returned to using telephone modems.
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