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April 2025

Civil Rights Groups Demand Senate Commerce Committee Ensure Balanced FCC

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and its Media/Telecommunications Task Force co-chairs, UnidosUS and United Church of Christ Media Justice Ministry, wrote to the chair and ranking member of the Senate Commerce Committee demanding that they delay the confirmation hearing for Olivia Trusty to serve as a Federal Communications Commissioner until the administration provides a binding commitment that it will keep the FCC fully staffed with five commissioners, two of whom must be Democrats.

South Carolina Nears End of Digital Divide

The South Carolina Broadband Office (SCBBO) announced that broadband deployment is continuing at a rapid pace and, while construction is still underway statewide, only 28,724 Broadband Serviceable Locations (BSLs) remain unserved or underserved and lack an investment commitment. Of the remaining BSLs, 21,466 are residential, 5,469 are business, and 1,789 are Community Anchor Institutions. These totals represent 1.1% and 2.9% of the statewide residential and business BSLs, respectively.

America's digital infrastructure belongs to you

When was the last time you thought about the fiber optic cables and satellites that keep you connected to the internet — making it possible to stream shows, book doctor’s appointments, send emails or read this article? Or the network of monitors throughout reservoirs, aqueducts, pipes and treatment facilities that enable us to drink and wash in clean water? When many people hear the word “infrastructure,” larger projects like bridges, roads and dams might come to mind. But unlike hard infrastructure, digital infrastructure is often invisible to even its most frequent users.

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Reps Trahan, Sens Cassidy and Ossoff Reintroduce Bipartisan Legislation to Restore Americans’ Control Over Their Own Data

Rep Lori Trahan (D-MA-03), a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee, partnered with Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) and John Ossoff (D-GA) to reintroduce the Data Elimination and Limiting Extensive Tracking and Exchange (DELETE) Act.

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