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FCC to eliminate gigabit speed goal and scrap analysis of broadband prices

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/fcc-to-eliminate-gigabit-speed-goal-and-scrap-analysis-of-broadband-prices/
22•mikece•5h ago

Comments

downrightmike•4h ago
Pathetic
WarOnPrivacy•2h ago
My first exposure to politicization of a purely tech issue was when net neutrality was hijacked and disingenuously recast as government control over the internet.

Two decades later we have the psychosis-like absurdity that "fiber is woke".

Including and between the above has been a steady stream of lobbying cash by US telcos - yielding captured regulators, captured legislators and telco-written, anti-consumer laws.

And while the degree of corruption is somewhat uneven between the two parties (regarding this), both are far too complicit to withhold contempt. The list of who hasn't been selling us out (fed, state and local) is much easier to keep track of.

gruez•1h ago
>My first exposure to politicization of a purely tech issue was when net neutrality was hijacked and disingenuously recast as government control over the internet.

>Two decades later we have the psychosis-like absurdity that "fiber is woke".

As much as it's fun to dunk on conservatives for "fiber is woke", how can you fail to mention how at the time net neutrality was a hot issue, its proponents thought the repeal of net neutrality was going to be the end of the internet as we knew it, and that ISPs were going to have different internet packages depending on what sites you wanted to go to? How did that turn out?

vel0city•1h ago
It turned into California and other states making their own network neutrality law, and have that get challenged to the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit with them only finally ruling it was allowable in 2022. Coupled with an assumption that the Biden admin would probably do things to bring back net neutrality laws it's not too surprising big ISPs didn't change much in the few years after.

Also, the final nail in the coffin of title II reclassification was Looper Bright that essentially overturns the ability for the FCC to reclassify. That was decided last year.

Spivak•39m ago
This happens all the damn time when people tout out the "see, nothing bad happened" because they don't know the work that went into the opposition fighting to make the bad things not happen.

First human recipient of bioreactor-grown mitochondria

https://longevity.technology/news/physicist-90-joins-experimental-trial-to-challenge-age-limits/
1•wjb3•1m ago•0 comments

Uvycycyc

1•rapedangggggg•5m ago•0 comments

Ddddaaaaannnngggg

1•rapedangggggg•6m ago•0 comments

Release of Files Related to Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-coordinates-release-files-related-assassination-martin-luther-king-jr
1•fernvenue•7m ago•0 comments

Defending AI's role in music: 'Bands will exist in new ways'

https://musically.com/2025/07/21/defending-ais-role-in-music-bands-will-exist-in-new-ways/
1•georgehopkin•7m ago•1 comments

Will Wonders Never Cease?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-21/oracle-in-talks-for-100-million-skydance-paramount-cloud-deal
1•Bogdanp•8m ago•1 comments

AI Can Make You Laugh. But Can It Ever Be Humorous?

https://undark.org/2025/07/21/ai-humor/
1•EA-3167•17m ago•0 comments

Ventricular Arrhythmia and Cardiac Fibrosis in Endurance Experienced Athletes

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.125.018470
2•wslh•19m ago•0 comments

New York City Trees Count 2025

https://treescount-2025-nyc.hub.arcgis.com/
2•geox•19m ago•0 comments

Earth is spinning faster, leading timekeepers to consider an unprecedented move

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/21/science/earth-spinning-faster-shorter-days
3•everybodyknows•26m ago•0 comments

Google Sheets for Coders [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44B6_svdD9Y
1•kamphey•27m ago•0 comments

NASA loses another senior official as tension about the agency's future grows

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/nasa-loses-another-senior-official-tension-grows-agencys-future-rcna220064
3•xqcgrek2•27m ago•0 comments

What it takes to become a locomotive engineer

https://www.trains.com/trn/railroads/locomotives/what-it-takes-to-become-a-locomotive-engineer/
1•reaperducer•29m ago•0 comments

New Duke study finds obesity rises with caloric intake, not couch time

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/07/250720034023.htm
3•ivewonyoung•31m ago•0 comments

Context Engineering for AI Agents: Lessons from Building Manus

https://manus.im/blog/Context-Engineering-for-AI-Agents-Lessons-from-Building-Manus
1•mountainview•33m ago•0 comments

How to create mobile-friendly documentation (2017)

https://opensource.com/article/17/12/think-mobile
4•billybuckwheat•33m ago•0 comments

Jeffrey Epstein's Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album

https://www.wsj.com/politics/trump-jeffrey-epstein-birthday-letter-we-have-certain-things-in-common-f918d796
7•Quasimarion•37m ago•2 comments

Acclaimed PS1-style Twin Peaks fan-made horror game is probably dead

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/survival-horror/acclaimed-ps1-style-twin-peaks-fan-made-horror-game-is-probably-dead-as-paramount-shuts-down-its-demo-after-2-years-we-can-no-longer-promise-any-continuation/
2•Bluestein•41m ago•0 comments

Show HN: LinkerSharer – anonymous link sharing with click counts

https://linkersharer-9cb59.web.app/
1•bag07•43m ago•0 comments

This 'violently racist' hacker claims to be the source of NYT Mamdani scoop

https://www.theverge.com/cyber-security/710480/columbia-hacker-nazi-nyt-affirmative-action
4•xqcgrek2•43m ago•0 comments

Key technological advance in neural interfaces

2•all2•44m ago•0 comments

CrowdStrike's cyber outage 1-year later: lessons

https://venturebeat.com/security/how-crowdstrikes-78-minute-outage-reshaped-enterprise-cybersecurity/
2•Bluestein•46m ago•0 comments

Jujutsu for Busy Devs

https://maddie.wtf/posts/2025-07-21-jujutsu-for-busy-devs
18•Bogdanp•48m ago•5 comments

The 'Smart' Restrooms That Can Solve America's Public Bathroom Crisis

https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/america-public-bathroom-crisis-218f6e57
2•paulpauper•57m ago•0 comments

Shorting Your Rivals: An Antitrust Remedy

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/07/shorting-your-rivals-a-radical-antitrust-remedy.html
3•paulpauper•58m ago•1 comments

Is All of Human Progress for Nothing?

https://starlog.substack.com/p/is-all-of-human-progress-for-nothing
4•paulpauper•59m ago•1 comments

Browser Minesweeper

https://www.freeonlineminesweeper.com
1•avonmach•1h ago•0 comments

Barn-owl project reducing farmers' reliance on poison to manage rats and mice

https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2025-07-06/rodenticide-barn-owls-pest-control-natural-alternative/105477976
3•PaulHoule•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Outlook MCP – I accidentally made the best email assistant

https://github.com/Norcim133/OutlookMCPServer/blob/main/README.md
1•Norcim133•1h ago•1 comments

Nvidia Launches Family of Open Reasoning AI Models: OpenReasoning Nemotron

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-launches-family-of-open-reasoning-ai-models-for-developers-and-enterprises-to-build-agentic-ai-platforms
2•kristianp•1h ago•1 comments