2. Not having high-speed internet is a huge obstacle to carrying out basic tasks, like applying for a job. But it's more than that; as my colleague @sportshotchris.bsky.social points out, this is about equality and freedom. mainemorningstar.com/2025/09/22/r...

Imagine one of the big corporate ISPs sharing profits w/community members👌😂

Now when it comes to community-owned networks like Paul Bunyan Communications in northern MN that's literally what happens: the cooperative recently announced it was giving $3.6 million back to its members

Our story here

Our third Building for Digital Equity livestream of the year brought together policy experts and frontline workers to explore how community-driven connectivity solutions are inextricably tied to building local trust

If you missed it, the entirety of the event can be viewed here

At ILSR's 50th Anniversary Gala last year, we presented Jim Baller with a Lifetime Achievement Award, noting how he "worked on the first municipal broadband project (and) shaped many of the people” working in this space

It's nice to see Broadband Communities give Jim his props as well

CBN director @sportshotchris.bsky.social explains to the Tribune-Enterprise in Wisconsin how the Trump Admin is forcing Wisconsin "to significantly decrease" meaningful infrastructure investment "in order to write a bigger check to SpaceX...rather than making sure everyone has good Internet access."

As part of our ongoing series highlighting the complex challenges of bringing high-speed Internet access to multi-dwelling units...

Our story on a new California law that lets renters opt out of bulk-billing arrangements that force them to pay for Internet service from a specific provider 🌐💻📶⬇️

Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go."

The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:

She went to say

“I just challenge anyone who feels like they're supposed to get out there and do something about this, do it afraid. Just get out there and do it. Everything else will fall in place. You don't have to be perfect. You don't have to know it all."

A word (chat starts at 51:50 mark)

I moderated a chat for our Building For Digital Equity livestream and one of our guests LaShawn Williamson said something powerful that applies far beyond broadband

“You just do it and do it afraid. And you walk by faith and not by sight. And everything that you need will come into play," she said

Welcome to Opt Out October, our collection of tips to slowly break free from online surveillance and throw sand in the gears of overreaching large tech companies. Today’s tip is about establishing good online security fundamentals. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Real story: President Trump posted online that the Digital Equity Act is "racist" & he would simply ignore the law. Now, millions of dollars for broadband in rural communities have gone away because of it.

It's illegal & Congress is silent.
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Looong overdue, even as Congress is now a rubber stamp branch for whatever TF this “President” wants to do, including cancelling laws Congress passed

Any Constitutional scholars out there that can tell us when checks and balances went fr being a central feature of our democracy to a museum relic?

On our latest podcast, Sascha Meinrath returns for a wide-ranging conversation on Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's book "Abundance"

Host @sportshotchris.bsky.social and Sascha discuss what the popular books gets right and wrong about broadband and public policy ⬇️

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The CBN team (almost unanimously) believes the word "Internet" should ALWAYS be capitalized

Here CBN director @sportshotchris.bsky.social makes the case for why

What say you?

#LostPackets #PluggedIn 🌐💻

On our latest podcast @mmasnick.bsky.social of @techdirt.com joins @sportshotchris.bsky.social to unpack the myths around Section 230, how reform efforts could backfire, and why protecting free speech requires more nuance than most policymakers are willing to give

Our fun Connect This! show today weighed in on so many topics, including shenanigans from AT&T and Verizon wireless, spectrum issues, whether Ajit Pai was a failure or quiet success (featuring a classic rant), Starlink update, and much more! ConnectThisShow.com for past eps.

Starlink? For reals? www.tiktok.com/t/ZTY2893Tj/

I'm glad the crowd vocalized their contempt for her bullying comments. It also highlights her lack and knowledge and entitlement to spreading misinformation. I'm also sad to see how they physically treated @evangreer.bsky.social. That was unnecessary.

Ted Cruz told the NTIA to stop the $1.25B Digital Equity Competitive Grant Program. Why? Because the funding is based on race. The program also benefits older adults, veterans, and people with disabilities.
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