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👍👍 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.
Digital Redlining: What It Is and What It Means for Communities
A relic of historic redlining that restricted marginalized peoples from buying homes still persists in internet access today.
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April 15, 2025 at 1:26 AM
👍👍 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.
Reposted by Cierra Noffke
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
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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...
This Co-Op Led Internet Service Offers a New Model for Closing the Digital Divide
Striking Spectrum workers started the cooperative several years back, and it's been fighting for equitable internet access ever since.
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April 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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...
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...
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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...
The FAA has agreed to use SpaceX's Starlink internet system to upgrade the IT networks it uses to manage US airspace, raising new concerns about conflicts of interest for CEO Elon Musk in one of his other roles, that of recommending funding cuts at federal agencies, including the FAA. cnn.it/436qirE
February 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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...
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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).
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FCC Chair Carr Eliminates All DEI Programs, Including the Digital Discrimination Task Force
The FCC's press release on ending DEI efforts could have an immediate impact on broadband efforts to bridge the digital divide.
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January 30, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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...
www.cnet.com/home/interne...