{"id":27648,"date":"2019-02-07T16:09:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T16:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorlines.madeostudio.com\/article\/watch-house-hears-advocates-demands-net-neutrality\/"},"modified":"2019-02-07T16:09:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T16:09:28","slug":"watch-house-hears-advocates-demands-net-neutrality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/article\/watch-house-hears-advocates-demands-net-neutrality\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: House Hears Advocates’ Demands for Net Neutrality"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n By Sameer Rao<\/span> Feb 07, 2019<\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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The United States House of Representatives’ Committee on Energy and Commerce<\/a> will listen to net neutrality<\/a> advocates, and former Federal Communications Commission<\/a> (FCC) chairs Tom Wheeler and Michael Powell, discuss the FCC’s repeal of open internet protections<\/a> today (February 7) beginning at 11 a.m. EST. Watch<\/a> above to see experts like Jessica J. Gonz\u00e1lez<\/a>, vice president of strategy and senior counsel for Free Press<\/a>, testify in favor of net neutrality and the safeguards that allow communities of color to speak their truth online.<\/p>\n

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Read the following excerpt from Gonz\u00e1lez’s testimony<\/a>\u2014released by Free Press ahead of the hearing<\/a>\u2014for a taste of what’s to come:<\/p>\n

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People of color were among some of the most vocal critics of the repeal, and for good reason: we have more to lose. Never before in history have barriers to entry been lower for people of color to reach a large audience with our own stories in our own words; to start small businesses; to organize for change. We are unwilling to yield our newfound access.<\/p>\n
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\n Archive<\/a>Energy and Commerce Committee<\/a>Free Press<\/a>House of Representatives<\/a>Jessica J. Gonz\u00e1lez<\/a>Net Neutrality<\/a>Open Internet<\/a>Politics<\/a>Politics<\/a> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Representatives of Free Press and other digital justice groups testify before the House of Representatives on the FCC\u2019s repeal of open internet protections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_gspb_post_css":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[16402,5093,5760,6721,7545,10422,10923,11471,16418],"article-type":[],"topic-meta":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27648"},{"taxonomy":"article-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-type?post=27648"},{"taxonomy":"topic-meta","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic-meta?post=27648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}