FCC’s Clyburn Not Neutral on Net Neutrality
by Michael Billups for Black Online TV 
Federal Communications Commissioner, Mignon Clyburn, is speaking out in favor of the regulatory agency’s current path to “net neutrality” even as opposers warn that there is too much uncertainty at the end of the road.
Clyburn made the supportive remarks in a recent speech to the Media Institute saying, that the proposal of FCC Chairman Genachowski is “the most efficient and least burdensome way to expeditiously address some of the most pressing challenges in the telecommunications sector today.”
Commissioner Clyburn’s view quite possibly was shaped by her visit in April with over 88,000 broadcasters from over 150 countries at the 2010 NAB Show in Las Vegas. The NAB Show is the largest gathering of media production junkies in the world; a showcase of new equipment and new ideas; a university of classrooms for every level message masters from newbie YouTubers to veteran journalists and everything in between; and a palette of platforms for hashing out the hairy nuances of issues facing broadcasters and the now pervasive “broader-casters” in the 21st Century.
Quite a theatre for Commissioner Clyburn who is the new queen on the throne of U.S. communications regulators barely ten months into her reign amongst the boys and one other girl of the FCC.
For many in a packed ballroom audience at NAB, the outspoken Clyburn was the main attraction on a somewhat prickly panel discussion called “The Washington Faceoff” on day three of the NAB show with two other FCC’ers – Michael Copps and Merideth Baker along with Anna Gomez of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. And, perhaps because Clyburn is the newest kid on the block, or perhaps because she is the only African-American on the Commission, many eyes and ears were poised to witness what she had to say.
Black Online TV caught up with Commissioner Clyburn -- daughter of a South Carolina Congressman, turned newspaper publisher, turned Carolina Public Service Commissioner, turned FCC Commissioner -- when she came off stage.
Watch the video below.
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