FCC chair teams up with Ted Cruz to block Wi-Fi hotspots for schoolkids
by Jon Brodkin from Ars Technica - All content on (#6ZS1F)
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr is teaming up with Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to block funding for Wi-Fi hotspots for schoolchildren.
Cruz convinced the Senate to kill the FCC's hotspot program in May. While Cruz's proposal didn't make it through the House of Representatives, Carr is now taking action to stop the program's implementation.
"Today, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr asked his commission colleagues to vote on two items that would reverse the agency's unlawful, Biden-era decisions to expand COVID spending programs," Carr's announcement said. "Those FCC decisions spent scarce taxpayer dollars on funding unsupervised screen time for kids without accounting for the significant attendant risks."