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Starlink tries to block Virginia’s plan to bring fiber Internet to residents (arstechnica.com)
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Starlink operator SpaceX is fighting Virginia's plan to deploy fiber Internet service to residents, claiming that federal grant money should be given to Starlink instead. SpaceX is already in line to win over $3 million in grant money in the state but is seeking $60 million.

Starlink is poised to benefit from the Trump administration rewriting rules for the $42 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) grant program. While the Biden administration decided that states should prioritize fiber in order to build more future-proof networks, the Trump administration ordered states to revise their plans with a "tech-neutral approach" and lower the average cost of serving each location.

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[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Look, yes, will we and they and literally all life end they aren't stopped?

Sure, yes, obviously.

Can they be negotiated with persuaded medicated or coerced into rational sane self interest? Nope. Not one of them.

But if youre not willing to end all life for theit bullshit, to kill yourself in such a slow and spectacylar manner that no life escapes, you're advocaging violence, you vig murdering dummy.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

you almost had me there