Black Lawmakers Digitally Redline African American Neighborhoods

BLACK LAWMAKERS DIGITALLY REDLINE AFRICAN AMERICAN NEIGHBORHOODS
[SOURCE: Black Agenda Report, AUTHOR: Bruce Dixon]
Last year Big Cable and Big Telephone interests teamed up to propose national cable franchise laws that would have killed network neutrality, privatized the Internet and allowed providers a free hand to redline broadband deployment in black, poor, rural and urban neighborhoods nationwide. Stopped in the U.S. Senate last fall, they have resurfaced in more than two dozen state legislatures from coast to coast. Prominent among supporters of Big Cable and Big Telephone are the National Black Caucus of State Legislators, thanks to tens of thousands in donations from AT&T, Verizon and Comcast.
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