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MMTC Seeks to Preserve Free and OpenInternet in FCC Filing

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Today, the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council (“MMTC”) announced that it,along with 24 National Organizations representing the interests of minorities and womenacross the country, filed comments before the Federal Communications Commissionregarding its further inquiry into two underdeveloped issues in the Open Internetproceeding.

According to David Honig, President and Executive Director of MMTC, the groups filing in thisproceeding are “committed to preserving a free and open Internet and [have] longsupported the FCC’s four existing open Internet principles in addition to its proposed sixthprinciple of transparency.” He cautioned against application of the Commission’s fifthprinciple on non-discrimination, however, and “emphasize[d] that the FCC has both a legaland moral duty to ensure that its proposed rules do not – in their very ‘neutrality’ – lock intoplace and perpetuate the vast and current racial disparities in broadband access, adoption,and informed use.”

Honig was joined on the call by Jason LLorenz, Executive Director of the Hispanic Technologyand Telecommunications Partnership (“HTTP”), an organization representing 20 Latino-focused groups across the country, who noted that HTTP also feels “that rigid net neutrality

regulations [are] not the way to bring the benefits of broadband to the Hispanic community.”

Both Honig and Llorenz, as representatives of all the organizations that signed onto thesecomments, “propose a consumer-focused and transparency-based approach to ensure theInternet remains free and open.” They insisted that, “because of the inherent ‘shamingculture’ of the Internet, we do not need draconian enforcement mechanisms to protectconsumers.”

When asked to clarify their stance on the non-discrimination principle, Honig noted that “it’simportant, first, to distinguish between the two uses of this word – discrimination.”

“In its colloquial context, most people understand it to refer to discrimination on the basis of race, sex, national origin and so on,” he said. “The word also happens to have a meaning inclassical economics, and that’s the meaning assigned to it by the FCC in connection with thisproposed fifth net neutrality principle.”

Honig reiterated the importance of recognizing that MMTC and the National Organizationsthat joined in this filing have endorsed five of the six net neutrality principles proposed bythe FCC, and that they only take issue with the potential detrimental impact that applicationof the economic non-discrimination principle could have on small, disadvantaged, womenand minority owned businesses.

“Those five principles are what we believe are the core of what an open Internet should look

like,” said Honig.

Citing concerns about reductions in jobs, investment, broadband access and adoption, MMTCin its filing encourages the Commission to take a closer look at the potential impact that toorigid rules – particularly those applied in the wireless space – could have on “the progressthat’s been made with the Internet in its free wheeling, and frankly disruptive formpresently, and over the last several years, toward closing the digital divide and reallyempowering minority communities in the digital age.”

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Author: Navarrow Wright

Navarrow is the President of Maximum Leverage Solutions, a consulting firm that deliversInternet, social media strategy and technology development consulting to its clients.Navarrow is also a principal at Londonberry ( http://www.londonberry.com), a webdevelopment and strategy firm. Navarrow Co-founded with Hip Hop Mogul, Russell Simmonsto create a social media site catering to the hip-hop perspective, Global Grind.com. Withfunding from Accel Partners, the primary investors of Facebook, “Wright successfullylaunched the product and raised the series A round of capitol. Wright also launched avertical ad network and celebrity blogger network while at Globalgrind. You can follow himon twitter @navarrowwright.

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· 17 hours ago

We have big gaps in Internet access in place now that must be addressed.

Our new broadband policy must address this. David Honig is correct — a purely "neutral" policyon broadband access would hardly be neutral at all. It would simply continue the inequalities in

access for a generation.

That would be terrible news for minority communities and minority entrepreneurs — and for thecountry as a whole.

We must have a policy on broadband access that addresses these gaps and inequalities — notone that sweeps the issue under the rug.

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