Alliance for Digital Equality (ADE) Calls on Free Press to Explain
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Alliance for Digital Equality (ADE) Calls on Free Press to Explain
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After release of 40-page guide documenting interest group’s plan to manipulate minority support for network neutrality, ADE wants answers
ATLANTA, July 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Today, the Alliance for Digital Equality (ADE) calls on Free Press to explain the true motives behind the 40-page guide reported by The Hill that advocates the manipulation of poor, rural, Southern African Americans and women in order to advance their political agenda. Although their own research shows the majority of Americans believe the Internet is working, Free Press recently commissioned the study Net Neutrality For the Win: How Entertainment and the Science of Influence Can Save Your Internet which includes messages, research data, and strategies for convincing targets that the future of the Internet is in jeopardy in order to gain support for Net Neutrality. ADE demands that Free Press explain their activities.
“The cynical and demeaning manipulation and stereotyping of poor, rural, minorities and women to advance a political agenda is inexcusable. And the blatant exploitation of the struggles that minorities face and have overcome as part of the civil rights movement is simply unacceptable,” said ADE Chairman Julius H. Hollis. “Free Press needs to immediately explain their actions and intentions.”
The forty-page guide, produced by the Harmony Institute, provides a framework to reach their “target demographics” – which include minorities, poor women and America’s Southern, rural poor – and bring them around to supporting Network Neutrality
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