AFL-CIO Wants Set-Top Proposal Made Public
The FCC should consider a proposed set-top box order “in a fully transparent manner,” the AFL-CIO said in a letter to Chairman Tom Wheeler Wednesday. The agency should “publicly release the full text of its revised set-top box proposal so…
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that stakeholders, including consumers and working people in the affected industries, can provide informed feedback to the Commission,” the letter said. The original NPRM would “upend the current content delivery system” and could lead to “fewer resources to invest in quality programming, the network, and the people who create and produce content and who build, maintain, and service the networks,” the union said: The complexity of the industry and the diversity of Americans affected by set-tops is extensive. Allowing stakeholders to review and comment on the complete text of the revised order “is the only way to ensure that such concerns are addressed,” the organization said. “The middle class Americans who depend on copyright protections to earn family-supporting pay and the consumers entrusting their personal information with corporations that deliver their entertainment content deserve a voice in the process.”