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  Mignon Clyburn Will Kill Net Neutrality
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Last EditedScott³  May 28, 2009 05:00pm
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News DateWednesday, May 6, 2009 10:55:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionTalking Points Memo Blog

"Obama is about to nominate Mignon Clyburn to the FCC, and for those of you who want the internet to turn into a low-rent version of cable TV, dominated by Rupert Murdoch and a few other right-wing billionaires, this is very good news.

For the rest of us, it sucks.

Mignon Clyburn is a member of some obscure utilities boards in South Carolina… AND…Jim Clyburn’s daughter, and it isn’t because of those obscure utilities commissions way down in Dixie that Obama is about to put Mignon Clyburn in a position of tremendous influence over the future of the internet.

Her resume is a joke.

And yes indeed, I know she was publisher of the Coastal Times, an impressive title which is always featured prominently in her bio, but I also know that the Coastal Times was nothing but a rag that was distributed free to area churches. It only existed to give Clyburn’s otherwise unemployable daughter the shadow of an occupation, and as soon as Big Jim Clyburn hooked her up with her first commission, the Coastal Times disappeared without a trace.

Chris Bowers [Link] is ringing alarms at Open Left…

"There is a disturbing possibility that President Obama has put his excellent open media and network neutrality platform at risk with his latest—and last—Democratic FCC appointment, Mignon Clyburn. There are five seats in the FCC, and “only three commissioners may be members of the same political party.” For the next five years, the FCC will have a 3-2 Democratic majority, once the remaining Republican open seat has been filled. That makes this appointment by President Obama the key swing vote that will largely determine FCC policy and regulation over the next five years. The reason Mignon Clyburn is such a worrying pick is that she is the daughter of South Carolina Representative James Clyburn, who has an anti-Net Neutrality record."
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