Power

IN 2020 the FCC awarded a $900 million dollar grant to Starlink to provide Internet service to rural area which included 600,000 users in 36 states. This would later be expanded to millions of users. This will require additional satellites over the coming years. President Biden promised a more equitable Internet access but his funding was slashed with the final version offering no money for locally run internet services. This week the FCC canceled the agreement with Starlink with no replacement plan. There is thus no plan to offer Internet to these rural areas. This like most things these days has taken on a political tone as Musk released the infamous Twitter files, which showed the White House conspiring to censor communications on platforms like Facebook and Twitter. According the The Hill an left leaning news group. Biden is throwing everything it can find at Musk, hoping that the endless barrage of regulatory, reputational and legal attacks will cause the world’s wealthiest man to kneel before its authority. The viciousness of the investigations being conducted by the Department of Justice, the Federal Aviation Administration, the Federal Trade Commission, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the National Labor Relations Board, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service against a successful American business leader is unprecedented. It says much more about the vindictive nature of Joe Biden than it does about the founder of Tesla, SpaceX and the Boring Company. The real power of the government resides within the bureaucracy.