FCC Commissioner on the Open Internet and Social Justice
FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn delivered a great speech examining the positive impacts of net neutrality on communities of color at last week’s Minority Media and Telecommunications Council Summit:
I fear that if we miss the boat on this opportunity, the Internet will end up becoming media ownership 2.0. I do not buy the argument that all regulation is dangerous, and I am confident that you do not either. I believe in smart regulation, which is why, for example, we have begun a process that will account for reasonable network management. But I hope we can work together to create strong rules that do not cede control of the most significant communications advancement in our lifetimes. By sitting this one out, or worse, by throwing up roadblocks that will enable what is now “our” Internet to become “their” Internet, we simply would be reinstating the very kinds of imbalanced structures that we have been attempting for decades to dismantle in other contexts.
Download the full speech (PDF). Thanks to Rick Kaplan and Jessica Gonzalez for sharing this wonderful speech.
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