In short:

Donald Trump has revealed plans to end the United States’s Digital Equity Act, which provides funding to programs that assist people to live in an increasingly online world.

The US president has branded the act — which was first intended to bring internet access to every home and business in the country — “racist and illegal”.

What’s next?

Whether Mr Trump has the legal authority to end the program remains unknown, but his government can now simply stop providing funding assistance covered by the act.

  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    18 days ago

    This is why fash hate critical race theory, etc. An educated public wouldn’t accept this kind of “reverse racism” bullshit. Unfortunately the hegemonic narrative under colonial imperialism is anti-reality and pro-racism. Thus, trump.

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    18 days ago

    Clearly this is one of those programs that was unwittingly caught in their DEI keyword searches.