The federal effort to expand internet access to every U.S. home has taken a major step forward with the announcement of $930 million in grants to shore up connections in dozens of places where significant connectivity gaps persist. Those places include remote parts of Alaska and rural Texas. The so-called middle mile grants are intended to trigger the laying of 12,000 miles of fiber through 35 states and Puerto Rico. The middle mile is the midsection of the infrastructure necessary to enable internet access, composed of high-capacity lines carrying lots of data quickly. The expansion is among several initiatives pushed through Congress by President Joe Biden’s administration to expand high-speed internet connectivity.
I wouldn’t call the headline wrong, but mostly speculation and opinion. Not that those are necessarily bad things.
Recent history certainly backs you up, regarding ISP subsidies. Generalizing everyone in areas that don’t have reliable internet access as ‘out-of-touch’ does rub me the wrong way, though.
The phrase “in effort to expand internet access to out-of-touch Americans who can’t read this headline” sounds to me as if you’re suggesting that it’s not worth expanding reliable internet access to certain parts of the U.S. You may not have meant it that way, but that’s how it reads to me.
I think it makes a good example for why I liked the idea that the main post copies the headline 1:1, and any opinions of the OP can always be expressed and discussed in the comments. Instead of many top-level comments being about an editorialized headline by the OP, they’d be about the posted article.
Very much agreed. There’s a good reason why /r/politics opted ultimately to stick with the headlines for topic titles. Let people draw their own conclusions from reading the actual link rather than trying to color their opinions with some lurid ‘summary’ with a zinger at the end.