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"Biden explicitly tied the expansion of broadband to the nation’s 1936 expansion of access to electricity through the Rural Electrification Act. " I've long wondered why this expansion was not applied to broadband.
As for "could regulation of publicly supported broadband help address the problem of disinformation on social media?) " I'm afraid it will be more like when the Internet began. Back then everyone was hopeful it would expand democracy around the world. The reality was quite differ…