Summary
Elon Musk, co-leading Trump’s “Department of Government Efficiency,” could influence U.S. broadband funding to benefit Starlink, his satellite internet company.
The Biden administration’s $42.45 billion BEAD program prioritizes fiber optics for rural broadband, but Starlink has been excluded for failing to meet performance standards.
Musk has criticized the program as wasteful and could push for funding delays or reallocation, benefiting Starlink as the only option in underserved areas.
Critics warn this shift favors Musk’s financial interests over reliable fiber infrastructure, raising conflict-of-interest concerns.
Well of course. As that was always the plan.
“Governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class.”
- James Connolly
Wadya mean ‘could’?
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This just in, politicians can use their power for self-enrichment.
The people who this might be news to are already so disillusioned.
As an aside, I don’t think the new department will actually do anything, it’ll just find projects with weird goals and claim they can save us all $100 million. Wow, big money. The Pentagon has failed literally every audit with billions unaccounted for with no repercussions, every single year since we even started checking in 2017. This is not “well it’s classified so they can’t tell us”, this is the Pentagon acknowledging they have ~$4 TRILLION in physical assets and about half are unaccounted for.
what is with this trend of journalists slowly meandering to the point, tripping over themselves every step of the way?
musks’s conflict of interest has been staring us in the face since the DGE was first announced. (im not going to include the “of” in the acronym)
They get paid by the word.
What a weird way to spell “will” I mean they missed every letter, “could” some editor must be real embarrassed.
It’s just their way of writing on something while avoiding a libel case against them.
No shit sherlock.
NO WAY
he literally invested 44 billion for this
One might wonder where the 44 billion came from in the first place.
*Audible gasp
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Isn’t that the point?
No shit.
