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<div id="content_view" class="wiki" style="display: block">'''<span style="font-size: 21.3333px">The Right to Communication</span>'''<br /> '''<span style="font-size: 21.3333px">Building a Just Communications System for Pittsburgh</span>'''<br /> <span style="font-size: 16px">To improve equity and justice in our city, greater attention is needed to address communications justice. Inequalities in access to the internet, increased corporate concentration and control of internet access and content, and growing threats to online privacy and security all threaten our right to communication and our democracy. </span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: 16px">Individuals and collectives working to address communications justice are coming together to help raise more public awareness of the heightened threats to democratic communication. </span><br />

* <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px"> </span><span style="font-size: 16px">Sunday February 18, 2018 4:30-6:30PM at Carnegie Mellon University, Tech for Society group will host a '''public''' '''workshop on digital privacy'''. </span>
* '''<span style="font-size: 16px">Thursday February</span>'''<span style="font-size: 16px"> 22, 2018 6:30-8:30PM Health and Human Services Building 1 Smithfield Street Downtown PGH. Public Conversation on Technology and Social Transformation. Join diverse residents of our city in a conversation about the role of technology in our communities and how we can work together to ensure that technology is used to advance human rights and justice in our city rather than to further racial and class inequities. (Homestead Grays Room)</span>
<br /> <br /> <br /> '''<span style="font-size: 21.3333px">Internet Access is a Human Right</span>'''<br /> <span style="font-size: 16px">The central role of information and communications in our society led the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_Internet_access United Nations to define internet access as a human right]. Indeed, full participation in our society requires that one have basic internet skills and regularized access to online resources. But Pittsburgh residents do not all enjoy access to this basic resource.</span><br />

'''<span style="font-size: 16px">Resources</span>'''<br /> <span style="font-size: 16px">[https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/an-emancipation-proclamation-for-the-digital-age/ An Emancipation Proclamation for the Digital Age]</span><br /> <span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px">[http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/06/03/lets-stop-google-from-gobbling-up-our-schools/ Let's Stop Google from Gobbling Up Our Schools ]</span><br /> <br /> '''<u>Net Neutrality</u>'''<br /> Democratic FCC commissioner Mignon Clyburn unveiled a [https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-347935A1.pdf fact sheet] (pdf) on the implications of proposed FCC plan to rescind net neutrality. </div>