I don’t think there was a lot of research into where these things come from to begin with.
this post was submitted on 24 Mar 2026
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What a surprise.
Figures, make it difficult and expensive for consumers to get routers. Make it so people must pay 5 times as much for a lower quality "US made" router in 4-5 years once the factories are built; or people just stop using the internet at home like the administration wants.
The US does not make many electronics, and when we do, they are ALWAYS made with imported components. So this is once again a threat to companies to move production to the US, but with ZERO incentive for the companies to do so.
No wonder our economy is tanking so hard under these nazi's. They are so incompetent, it hurts.
What the fuck are they doing?
Taking a huge payment from Comcast and Verizon would be my guess. The language appears to exclude ISP-owned routers.
It's the implementation part of ending net neutrality, the legal framework was put in during Trump's last administration. Goal is to make your home network entirely managed and visible to your ISP, who has huge incentives (financial and otherwise) to comply with government requests for information and censorship.
Spying on citizens at best. Manipulating content at worst.
Quick question. What would happen if China decided to get angry about this, and stop selling 100% of their goods to American companies unless they allowed 100% of their goods to be sold without restrictions?
So everything
Get them pitchforks ready.
And guillotines.
I’m thinking exempt based on the FCC language of “designed to be installed by the consumer”. ISP provided routers are usually hooked up by the installer tech. Which makes me wonder which ISP chortled orange man’s balls to get this passed.