Latinos Lose When Latinos Attack Latinos

[Commentary] I was at first saddened when Alex Nogales, head of the National Hispanic Media Coalition, said that Latinos and Latino organizations like the Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute who disagreed with him on whether the Federal Communications Commission should apply Title II (otherwise known as “heavy” government regulation) to the Internet or utilize a “light “regulatory touch via Section 706 were “. . . at best misinformed and at worst intentionally distorting facts.”

Simply, what Rep Loretta Sanchez (D-CA), most Latino organizations and most experts are saying is don’t apply a decades-old rotary phone regulatory regime to the Internet. If the Internet, through “light” regulation, helped advance causes essential to Latinos without Title II, why is Title II so necessary now? Latinos no longer use rotary phones. In fact, we use smart phones in greater percentages than any other group of Americans, regardless of ethnicity.