*raises hand* a consolidated corporate media dominated by affluent brunchlords wants to supplant real journalism that challenges wealth and power with hollow, pseudo-journalistic infotainment that better serves and reflects the right wing, corporatist views of ownership RE: View quoted note →
The U.S. broadband digital divide got measurably worse last year, thanks in part to Republicans killing a popular federal program that gave low-income Americans a $30 discount off of their monthly broadband bill: [The Broadband Divide Worsened ...]( )
this was Verizon's reward for buckling under Trump's demands that they be more racist, and sitting on their hands while Elon Musk steals their $2 billion FAA contract [Verizon wins FCC approval for ...]( )
whoops you helped fund the election of an incoherent fascist operating at a third grade reading level [Industry groups are not happy ...]( )
love 2 wake up every day and write about how ignorant assclowns are making life shittier for people who repeatedly cheer against their own best interests [Trump Declares High-Speed Inte...]( )
I was JUST saying to myself, "self, I'd love to watch a c-tier fashy-apologist comedian playing a caricature of an even dumber person interview a charisma-less damp walnut going through a very public midlife crisis" https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:xtg6uhgsy2j7k2a6qtcood2w&cid=bafkreihljly5sf33heooq7ejnk3d4lnmbea23roqffaxd3qzvanuzkkwwe
Over at The Verge I wrote about how Brendan Carr has transformed our top media and telecom regulator into a dangerous, incoherent, grievance-fueled censorship and harassment machine: [Brendan Carr’s FCC is an anti-...]( )
this knob has been picking fights and talking out of his ass on autism since the thimerosal conspiracy theories of the early aughts the idea such a viciously ugly distortion wasn't intentional jumbo assholery is laughable [RFK Jr. Stunned His Autism Spe...]( )
people are going to get excited that the Trump administration has perpetuated the cases against big tech, but when we get to the remedy phase it's going to be solutions like "be more racist" and "give right wing propagandists search result priority" [Google is in more danger than ...]( )
It never gets brought up as useful context in these stories, but Zuckerberg was caught using PR and lobbying firms to seed DC and the press with TikTok moral panics for years [Zuckerberg underscores TikTok ...](https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5252373-zuckerberg-underscores-tiktok-competition-as-meta-fights-monopoly-allegations/ )