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What does an Internet built on the values of sovereignty, safety, and freedom look like?
This is the question I'm exploring and redefining this summer as a Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy. What are your thoughts?
What can you do?
Read more from CR: https://consumerreports.org/electronics-computers/telecom-services/you-may-be-paying-too-much-for-your-internet-a7157329937/
From WaPo: https://washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/17/isp-prices-fees/
Add your name for clear pricing labels: https://action.consumerreports.org/20221117broadbandlabelfcc
Another finding by CR: when consumers have a choice of provider, their prices are lower.
Is this news? Not at all! We know that with competition we get better prices and services. This is why ISPs work so hard to keep competition low.
This is why NTEN and 30+ others called on the FCC to create a broadband consumer label so that we can all avoid junk fees and actually know what we are paying for.
One finding by CR: our consumer internet bills are often so confusing that even researchers can't decipher them!
Why is this important? You can't argue what you don't understand. This is an intentional tactic.
Last year, NTEN and many others encouraged folks to submit their internet bills to Consumer Reports - 22k people did and the results of analyzing all those bills are here!
Spoiler: things aren't great. 🧵
I guess we start with intros...
Lifelong believer that we can change the world and that it can and must work for all of us. A lot of my time and career has been invested in the worlds of #NPTech, #DigitalEquity, and #CommunityOrganizing. Outside of work at NTEN I'm deeply involved in efforts to build power in local, youth, and community-based efforts.
I've had the incredible privilege to write 3 books. The most recent book is The Tech That Comes Next co-authored with Afua Bruce!
