Martin Luther King Jr. said: “We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.”

Like MLK Jr., Federal Communications Commissioner Mignon Clyburn is a Digital Inclusion Champion and recently stood up for network neutrality. Send her a note to thank and support her today: mignon.clyburn@fcc.gov.

Commissioner Clyburn is a black woman who is clear that communities of color and the poor need widespread broadband adoption to connect, communicate, and seek change.

But in a recent speech at Howard University’s John H. Johnson School of Communications, she also said, “I hope we can work together to create strong rules that do not cede control of the most significant communications advancement in our lifetimes. By sitting this one [the fight for network neutrality] out, or worse, by throwing up roadblocks that enable what is now “our” Internet to become “their” Internet, we simply would be reinstating the very kinds of imbalanced structures that we have been attempting for decades to dismantle in other contexts.”

Commissioner Clyburn knows the broadband story isn’t complete without the addition of strong network neutrality rules that prevent corporate gatekeepers from discriminating online.

Big Media companies and their allies are pushing back. Please join the Center for Media Justice in congratulating Commissioner Clyburn for standing in the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King as she strives to protect broadband with strong rules that prevent a new set of corporate gatekeepers from controlling the Internet for profit.

When our policymakers stand up for us, it is important that we stand up for them. To thank Commissioner Clyburn for her pro-network neutrality stance and remind her that the organizations of the Media Action Grassroots Network, and our allies and friends, are in her corner, please email her a short note right now at mignon.clyburn@fcc.gov.

This blog post was originally published by the Center for Media Justice.