Trump Says California Can’t Stand Up To Big Telecom If It Wants Taxpayer Grants

As the federal U.S. government has given up on consumer protection and corporate oversight, states have filled the void with various degrees of success. That’s been particularly apparent in areas like telecom, where the corruption-fueled death of federal privacy and net neutrality protections have been replicated in a handful of states like California, which passed their own state-level laws. Now California’s being told by the Trump administration that it can’t enforce any of its own consumer protection laws if it wants to receive $1.4 billion dollars Congress already earmarked for broadband expansion under the 2021 infrastructure bill. I’ve explored at length (at several different outlets) how $42.5 billion was...

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