Telecoms using Black American front group vs Net Neutrality -(AlterNet)

[annabanana]

http://www.alternet.org/story/147936/greedy_telecoms_are_using_an_african-american_front_group_to_fight_net_neutrality

The Alliance for Digital Equality claims to expand broadband to minority communities. In fact, they're a corporate lobbying entity that opposes policies that would do just that.

On August 4, 2010 Tom Joyner had as guest on his nationally syndicated Morning Show one Julius Hollis, an African American former telecom exec who heads up the Alliance For Digital Equality (ADE), a corporate lobbying entity in blackface, widely believed to be funded largely by AT&T.

Hollis asserts that he helped start an in-school and after-school program for fifty children in Atlanta which is now “accessible to” more than 2.1 million children. That's a lot of children. BAR called ADE's headquarters in Atlanta. We asked where those 2.1 million children were, and exactly what Hollis meant when he said his program was “accessible to” them. Despite repeated telephone inquiries over the course of a week nobody at ADE could tell us that. In fact, they took our calls politely, but never returned any.

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[MrScorpio]

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