FCC may kill $2B program that connects schools and libraries to Internet | FCC Chairman Brendan Carr cites screen time concerns, is accused of trying to be “the nation’s parent.”

E-Rate and other Universal Service Fund (USF) programs are paid for by fees imposed on phone companies, which usually pass the cost on to consumers on their monthly bills.

Let me guess, they want to save government money …… errrr let large companies keep more of the money from their ratepayers?

Schools do need to cut screen time but that should be in the classroom, not the library where you go to do research on school projects or essays.

I’m not going to lie, screen time at public school is a concern for me. But that’s an issue with the school district. I still want them to have fucking internet.

Fuck Brandan Carr.

rich corrupt fascligarchs couldn’t care less about your kids’ education, let alone "too much screen time. they need manual laborers from the peasant class, they don’t need a generation of educated adults who have the capacity to form their own opinions regardless of what they’re told to believe

so the answer is simple: label access to information as evil, and then eliminate said access

Libraries are where many folks go to to access government resources. My local DMV (department of motor vehicles) restricted services to by-appointment-only a few years back and, if you needed help making an appointment, their call center directed you to the local library. Note: they did not warn the local libraries they were doing this.

Anyways, you should have seen this asshole come in to get assistance. My co-worker helped him and was polite about it, but told me afterwards that he’d been spearheading the local “defund the library” initiative. Turns out we are good for something even if you buy your own books. Dickhead.

So, it’s a “service” when they add age verification to every damn thing, but “the nations parent” derogatorily when it’s taking freeform access out of the schools? What the fuck is going on??

Real reason: It’s much harder to track those using library accounts.

How about the fucking parents be parents. What about that??

It’s simple really: education at any level allows people to realize what is happening. Communication allows people to educate others.

They want isolated, dumb assholes because they will obey them. They got themselves into power starting with GamerGate, so they know it works; and it’s just been working better and better since.

We NEED to Think of the Children by ARRESTING Pedophiles! FUNDING School Lunch! FUNDING Youth Healthcare! ELIMINATING access to the Internet!

-LITERALLY Republicans!

They’re still trying to destroy public education.

The schools need internet connectivity whether there is a lot of screen time for the kids or not. What is this shithead even trying to say?

Even more money lost for rural schools. Getting high speed, high capacity internet connections to much of rural America is extremely cost prohibitive. E-Rate was the only way the rural district where I was network admin could possibly afford it.

LOL LOL screen time in libraries is bad dontchakno

The isolation begins.