FCC Commissioner Starks at Partnership for Progress on the Digital Divide

When I was invited to join you today, and learned more about this gathering and its goals, I immediately thought that this would be a perfect opportunity to lay down a marker about what I think is one of the most important issues facing America – and I will say it plain, that is getting the internet everywhere. I believe that we are transitioning from a “digital divide” into a state of “internet inequality.” What I’d like to share with you today are a few sketches of the way that I have observed that internet inequality has impacted America: first, it has robbed many of individual dignity; second, it has hamstrung the US economy; and third, it has weakened our democracy.