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Last Monday, members of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) came to Boston to hold hearings on an important subject: whether broadband providers like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast should be allowed to manage Internet traffic for efficiency’s sake. It’s a useful question, and one that abuts the controversial debate on network neutrality: the idea that broadband networks should blindly treat each bit of information on the Internet equally...
...acceptable network management. But the FCC’s seemingly obsequious effort to reassure Silicon Valley special interests—like Google—that enough fast lanes will be preserved for their latest application is in stark contrast to the war on civil rights and diversity that the FCC has declared of late...
...reality is that the FCC will shy away from addressing these more important issues, hoping that its academic debate about network management might serve as a salve for the widespread criticism that it’s asleep at the digital switch...
...crisis in broadcast television. People of color make up 33 percent of our population but own just three percent of all broadcast TV stations—and research shows that the number of owners is plummeting at alarming levels. Despite repeated requests from more than 20 civil rights organizations, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has placed the future of media diversity in greater jeopardy by asking programmers of color to take a back seat to his favored special interests...
According to Craig A. Aaron, the communications director for Free Press, one of the groups presenting a petition before the FCC, the group became suspicious after interviewing crowd members about the issues being discussed in the hearing only to find that many did not know what the hearing was about...