All We Want for Christmas Is Internet Equality
Huffington Post, December 17, 2010
By Alex Nogales
It's troubling that the rules FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is lining up will fall short when it comes to protecting the online experience of people of color and the poor. It's particularly alarming that, while the proposed rules impose a number of basic guidelines for the Internet that we access on our computers, those same basic protections would not apply to our cellular phones, a major Internet onramp for poor Americans and people of color.
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