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As states move on AI, tech lobbyists are swarming in (Politico)
Submitted by dclay@benton.org on Mon, 09/11/2023 - 15:32Will Politicians Ban Their Best Way of Reaching Young Voters? (Politico)
Submitted by dclay@benton.org on Fri, 08/25/2023 - 10:16This 26-year-old federal fund evolved to fight the ‘digital divide.’ Now a court might throw it out.
Over the past 26 years, the Universal Service Fund — a federal subsidy pool collected monthly from American telephone customers — has spent close to $9 billion a year to give Americans better phone and internet connections, wiring rural communities in Arkansas, inner-city neighborhoods in Chicago, and public libraries and schools across the country. Now it faces the biggest crisis of its existence, and Congress appears paralyzed in the effort to fix it.