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2024-08-04 13:46:01 UTC - MISINFORMED_OR_POTENTIALLY_MISLEADING

For the $42,000,000,000 spent by the federal government on high-speed internet, the government could have purchased 140,000,000 Starlink receivers at $299 each. https://www.starlink.com/us There are approximately 60M people living in 20M households in rural areas in the US. https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2018/05/22/demographic-and-economic-trends-in-urban-suburban-and-rural-communities/

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• For the $42,000,000,000 spent by the federal government on high-speed internet, the government could have purchased 140,000,000 Starlink receivers at $299 each. https://www.starlink.com/us There are approximately 60M people living in 20M households in rural areas in the US. https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2018/05/22/demographic-and-economic-trends-in-urban-suburban-and-rural-communities/