We Investigated Starlink. The Corruption We Found Will Shock You(www.youtube.com)

10 pointsby tukunjil2 hours ago1 comment

freehorse2 hours ago
I don't think that "multibillionaire gets big chunk of the money intended for building durable infrastructure due to being friends with/funding the president, resulting to no infrastructure being actually built" is shocking (anymore) but it was still worth watching.
- bell-cotan hour ago
  Last I heard, plenty of non-satellite internet providers have also taken billions from those programs, then pretty much ignored the associated obligations.
  And it's not a "Trump" issue, either. The rot also thrived under Biden.
  - hypercube3312 minutes ago
    Over the last 30 years there have been plenty of attempts if you will to build out fiber. Some did lay fiber, others seem to have not.
    The Biden bill did get my parents fiber in rural Wisconsin because the local ISP actually wanted to deliver Internet.
    I think the government was hoping that raising and holding providers accountable with the bandwidth tests would have solved that but enforcement is one place this is falling down.