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This week: Digital equity advocates Shayna Englin (California Community Foundation) and Kevin Miller (Fresno Coalition for Digital Inclusion) on digital discrimination in California and a new legislative effort to end it.
This episode features Shayna Englin, director of the digital equity initiative at the California Community Foundation; as well as Kevin Miller, who serves as board president of the Fresno Coalition for Digital Inclusion.
We discuss the issue of digital discrimination in the US broadband space – including how and where it shows up in the state of California, and why their organizations are supporting a bill introduced in the California Assembly that would seek to define and end digital discrimination across the state.
Since this episode was recorded (on May 20), the bill – introduced by Assemblywoman Mia Bonta – has passed the California State Assembly and now awaits a vote in the Senate.
Here are some topics discussed in this conversation:
Background on and importance of the FCC's digital discrimination rules (03:22)
Why they believe California needs its own state law banning digital discrimination (06:44)
How digital discrimination is perpetuated by California operators (10:12)
State of negotiations as of this recording and likelihood that the bill becomes law (17:44)
How the industry is lobbying against the bill (19:31)
What the end of the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) means for Californians (25:14)
For a lightly edited transcript, click the caption button on the podcast player.
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