[12616] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
It's getting worse
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frezza (via RadioMail))
Tue May 24 16:11:38 1994
Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 08:28:50 PDT
From: Bill Frezza (via RadioMail) <frezza@radiomail.net>
Cc: opfer@radiomail.net, Sam_Boyle@mcimail.com, aa@wired.com,
eff-board@eff.org
To: com-priv@psi.com
Here we go. Now we've got the United Church of Christ defining
info-entitlements as a civil rights issue.
Where does it all end?
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DECISIONLINE/Telecommunications
USA TODAY Update
May 24, 1994
Source: USA TODAY/Gannett National Information Network
POOR LEFT ON SIDE OF HIGHWAY:
Poor, minority communities risk being bypassed by the
information highway because phone companies are engaged in
"electronic redlining." That's what five consumer and civil rights
groups charged Monday. The groups want the Federal Communications
Commission to intervene to stop it. The phone companies deny the
accusations.
(For more, see special Poor package below.)
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NETWORK CALLED RIGHTS ISSUE:
Civil rights groups like the NAACP and the National Council of
La Raza say the phone companies are excluding poor, black and
Hispanic communities from plans to offer new communications
systems. "The building of the information superhighway is the
civil rights issue of the 21st century," says Anthony Pharr of the
Office of Communication of United Church of Christ.
