{"id":3581,"date":"2025-05-15T20:37:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T20:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/?p=3581"},"modified":"2025-05-15T23:12:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T23:12:34","slug":"federal-digital-equity-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/federal-digital-equity-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal digital equity act"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Digital Equity Act is a federal act that seeks to expand access to broadband. President Trump says it is \u201cracist and illegal $2.5 billion giveaway.\u201d In response, Alisa Valentin, broadband policy director at open internet advocacy group Public Knowledge,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/public-knowledge-denounces-unconstitutional-attack-on-americas-right-to-connect-and-communicate\/\" target=\"_blank\">said in a statement<\/a>, \u201cThe irony is that the weaponization of the word \u2018equity\u2019 will halt progress in closing the digital divide and will also severely impact his voter base of white Americans who live in rural areas in red states, including veterans and the elderly.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.route-fifty.com\/digital-government\/2025\/05\/bead-uncertainty-swirls-joined-trumps-threats-digital-equity-act\/405271\/\">Route Fifty | BEAD uncertainty swirls, joined by Trump\u2019s threats to the Digital Equity Act<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Digital Equity Act is a federal act that seeks to expand access to broadband. President Trump says it is \u201cracist and illegal $2.5 billion giveaway.\u201d In response, Alisa Valentin, broadband policy director at open internet advocacy group Public Knowledge,\u00a0said in a statement, \u201cThe irony is that the weaponization of the word \u2018equity\u2019 will halt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3581"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3585,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581\/revisions\/3585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}