We’ve documented for decades how U.S. telecom is an uncompetitive mess dominated by politically powerful telecom monopolies that see no competition and effectively own Congress. As a result, …

The proposal comes after Republicans killed a federal FCC program that provided a $30 discount off the broadband bills of low-income Americans. The Republicans in question claimed they killed the popular program to save money, but a follow up study showed that the program more than paid for itself (by a factor of four) because it helped expand access to remote healthcare, employment, and education.

My state fighting a good fight. We’re flawed, but we sometimes get it right.

  • merde alorsEnglish
    -6•6 days ago

    Poor people deserve bad customer service, too!

    why did you choose to add “too” to the end of the sentence, instead of writing “poor people too deserve …”?

    Is it a visual choice? Are you trying to balance "O"s as in oo………oo

    • Elvith Ma'forEnglish
      6•6 days ago

      Grammar Nazi chiming in:

      Too meaning ‘also’

      We can use too to mean ‘also’. It is more common than also in informal situations. We normally use it at the end of the clause.

      In short answers in informal situations, we normally say me too, not I too.

      In more formal situations, we can use too immediately after the subject.

      https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/too

    • @thefartographer@lemm.eeEnglish
      3•6 days ago

      You’re not wrong. People tend to tune me out when I speak that formally, and I made a decision a long time ago to always write how I speak.

      That being said, you should hear my corrected version of Land of Confusion.

      This is the world in which we live
      And these are the names you’ve given us