FCC’s Clyburn defends LifeLine, but whose responsibility is social inclusion?
Democrat FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn has hit FCC Chairman Ajit Pai hard with a potentially emotionally manipulative speech criticizing plans to end its LifeLine programme.
Back in November, the FCC announced plans to scale back the federal Lifeline programme, an initiative which assists poorer families in accessing the digital world. LifeLine is not a perfect system, it is fraught with fraud and muddled with red-tape, but that is not a reason to completely scrap it. This will do nothing but
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