Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Report
News, commentary and analysis from the black left.

  • Home
  • Africa
  • African America
  • Education
  • Environment
  • International
  • Media and Culture
  • Political Economy
  • Radio
  • US Politics
  • War and Empire

FCC “Corruption” Gutted Internet Neutrality
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
19 Dec 2017
🖨️ Print Article

The media advocacy group Free Press will go to court to reverse the FCC’s gutting of internet neutrality protections, said spokesperson Tim Karr. “This is a very corrupt process,” said Karr. “It involves individuals who are captured by industry.”

Victor Pickard, a professor at the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania, agrees. Over the past ten months, he said, the FCC commissioners “basically have satisfied a long-standing wish list for the telecommunications and broadcast industries.”

Internet Neutrality

Related Podcasts

Liberal Ire at Trump and Cambridge Analytica is Misdirected From Billionaires Who Own Your Data
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Liberal Ire at Trump and Cambridge Analytica is Misdirected From Billionaires Who Own Your Data
22 March 2018
Liberals this week want to drum us into outrageous fury over the fact that Facebook, with almost 2 billion accounts worldwide, handed over user dat
FCC “Corruption” Gutted Internet Neutrality
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
FCC “Corruption” Gutted Internet Neutrality
19 December 2017
The media advocacy group Free Press will go to court to reverse the FCC’s gutting of internet neutrality protections, said spokesperson Tim

More Stories


  • Bandit Baltimore Cops and the Black Misleadershp Class
    Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
    Bandit Baltimore Cops and the Black Misleadershp Class
    15 Feb 2018
    “The nominally Black-controlled local government is incapable of meaningful response.”
  • Black Panther riding subway car
    Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
    On the Black Panther Movie and the Limits of Our Imagination
    15 Feb 2018
    "...comics and sci fi brought to us by capitalist corporate media fail to imagine what a better world, or even the struggle to get there might look like"
  • Freedom Rider: U.S. Escalates Syrian War
    Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
    Freedom Rider: U.S. Escalates Syrian War
    14 Feb 2018
    “The commitment must be to end United States interventions and declare independence from anyone who is not firmly opposed to crimes cooked up in Washington.”
  • Palestinians VS bulldozer
    Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
    Sugar Hill Play-date v. Oz-low Piece Process
    14 Feb 2018
    35 lb question mark, 3 ft exclamation point, doesn’t cringe at loud sounds or pee his bed behind nightmares. Camryn, my three year-old Sugar
  • The Independent Journalist Corner: A Conversation with Jon Jeter
    Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
    The Independent Journalist Corner: A Conversation with Jon Jeter
    14 Feb 2018
    “Good journalism died in this country with 9/11.”
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us