New online video asks commissioner Mignon Clyburn to stand strong and protect wireless users
12.07.2010– When the Federal Communications Commission votes on network neutrality provisions – the Internet’s Bill of Rights – on December 21st, 2010, hundreds of thousands of wireless users may find themselves unprotected by the new rules.
As the FCC inches closer to one of the most significant telecommunications decisions in recent history, some groups are concerned that wireless users will be unprotected by new Internet safeguards. In a recent speech, FCC Chariman Genchowski made it clear that wireless users could expect less protection from net neutrality provisions than other Internet users. As studies have repeatedly demonstrated that African-Americans, Latinos, and young people primarily access the web through wireless devices- advocates working on poverty and race are deeply concerned that the proposed rules do not give these users equal protection, and would entrench an already expansive digital divide.
Groups criticizing a recent proposal circulated by FCC Chair Genachowski say the outcome of this decision will determine whether the Internet is turned over to big companies or remains protected and in the hands of users.
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