Mainstream civil rights orgs push for corporate telecoms—who happen to be their donors.
The NAACP, National Urban League, and others sent a letter to the FCC supporting the end of net neutrality. Other civil rights organizations say an end to net neutrality would enable discrimination and undermine the web as a platform for activism.
The civil rights group opposed to net neutrality have employed several arguments against the proposal. In one filing made in 2010, the NAACP signed onto an argument from MMTC that net neutrality reforms were a waste of resources because the FCC should focus on “more pressing racial discrimination and exclusionary hiring and promotion practices of certain Silicon Valley high-tech companies.” In a separate filing in 2014, MMTC and the NAACP argued that reclassification would threaten the “fragile state of minority engagement in the digital ecosystem.”