Page 4 - Digital Discrimination News Today

The approved set of regulations marks a significant step in ensuring equal access to digital services for all communities.

May 2023 in MENA: A free expression round up produced by IFEX’s Regional Editor Naseem Tarawnah, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region.

Broadband internet access service providers, and possibly broadband communications services and applications providers, will likely soon face additional regulatory restrictions on their...

This December, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is poised to take action to combat digital discrimination. Equitable access to broadband is an important objective, and the agency has long been charged with ensuring that telecommunications be made available “without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex.” But a key question is how one defines “discrimination.” The breadth of the agency’s proposed definition could have unintended consequ...

MIdterms 2022: Democrats let the FCC dwindling in the wind and now Republicans may have wind up killing Gigi Sohn's nomination.

Press release content from Business Wire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation.

When the massive, bipartisan infrastructure package passed Congress, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was tasked with ensuring equal access to broadband access services. That provision is called “Digital Discrimination” and it states, for the first time in federal law, that specifically broadband access cannot be built along the lines of race, income, and other

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) gave the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) two years within which to adopt rules that will “facilitate equal access...

The FCC is opening its plan to fight digital discrimination to public comments, hoping people will weigh in on the matter.

This report provides a snapshot of the US Executive Branch priorities via daily schedules and the prior day's press releases.