4. Digital Redlining
C.Gilliard popularized this term for how tech sorts people along old lines of class & race.
Here, privacy becomes a luxury good. If you can afford hardware that respects it, great. If you can’t, you trade constant surveillance for tech you can afford. #DigitalRedlining (8/11)
C.Gilliard popularized this term for how tech sorts people along old lines of class & race.
Here, privacy becomes a luxury good. If you can afford hardware that respects it, great. If you can’t, you trade constant surveillance for tech you can afford. #DigitalRedlining (8/11)
October 26, 2026 at 3:43 PM
4. Digital Redlining
C.Gilliard popularized this term for how tech sorts people along old lines of class & race.
Here, privacy becomes a luxury good. If you can afford hardware that respects it, great. If you can’t, you trade constant surveillance for tech you can afford. #DigitalRedlining (8/11)
C.Gilliard popularized this term for how tech sorts people along old lines of class & race.
Here, privacy becomes a luxury good. If you can afford hardware that respects it, great. If you can’t, you trade constant surveillance for tech you can afford. #DigitalRedlining (8/11)
The 8th Circuit gutted FCC anti-discrimination rules. Now unequal outcomes alone don’t count; only provable intentional bias does. Black and low-income neighborhoods can still get worse internet at higher prices. No written confession of racism = no remedy. #DigitalRedlining
Court strikes down FCC anti-discrimination rule opposed by Internet providers
Chairman Brendan Carr celebrates FCC court loss in case over Biden-era rule.
arstechnica.com
May 7, 2026 at 2:07 PM
The 8th Circuit gutted FCC anti-discrimination rules. Now unequal outcomes alone don’t count; only provable intentional bias does. Black and low-income neighborhoods can still get worse internet at higher prices. No written confession of racism = no remedy. #DigitalRedlining
"And Black and Latino students were more likely to say content related to people of color is disproportionately blocked on their school devices." #DigitalRedlining
“About 70% of both teachers and students this year said web filters get in the way of students’ ability to complete their assignments.”
Online Censorship In Schools Is ‘More Pervasive' Than Expected, New Data Shows – The Markup
Nationally representative survey data from The Center for Democracy & Technology finds schools subjectively and broadly block students from information online
themarkup.org
January 17, 2025 at 2:25 AM
"And Black and Latino students were more likely to say content related to people of color is disproportionately blocked on their school devices." #DigitalRedlining
Mayberry, here we come! We know who isn't invited to some "social neighborhoods."
Flashback to #DigitalRedlining?
Flashback to #DigitalRedlining?
a group of people are sitting in the back seat of a car with a man driving .
Alt: B&W clip from The Andy Griffith Show. Andy, Thelma Lou, and Barney are in the car, with Barney at the wheel as the driver. Gomer is in the back seat, as are possibly Opie and Aunt Bee.
media.tenor.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Mayberry, here we come! We know who isn't invited to some "social neighborhoods."
Flashback to #DigitalRedlining?
Flashback to #DigitalRedlining?
✨Back in the classroom this semester. Talking about the good, bad, and the ugly. Onward. #AI #pollution #healthequity #digitalredlining #usercenterdesign
February 9, 2026 at 3:54 PM
✨Back in the classroom this semester. Talking about the good, bad, and the ugly. Onward. #AI #pollution #healthequity #digitalredlining #usercenterdesign
Brendan Carr, the Trump-appointed chairman, is turning the FCC into an instrument to advance the President’s anti-democratic agenda.
Read The Full Story by David Rosen on the Progressive.
progressive.org/latest/brend...
#fcc #digitalredlining #dei
Read The Full Story by David Rosen on the Progressive.
progressive.org/latest/brend...
#fcc #digitalredlining #dei
Brendan Carr’s Mission to Remake the FCC
The Trump-appointed chairman is turning the agency into an instrument to advance the President’s anti-democratic agenda.
progressive.org
September 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Brendan Carr, the Trump-appointed chairman, is turning the FCC into an instrument to advance the President’s anti-democratic agenda.
Read The Full Story by David Rosen on the Progressive.
progressive.org/latest/brend...
#fcc #digitalredlining #dei
Read The Full Story by David Rosen on the Progressive.
progressive.org/latest/brend...
#fcc #digitalredlining #dei
Latest blog post from Bill Callahan at Connect Your Community shows digital redlining still a thing in Cleveland. AT&T only provides 2007-era DSL to 48% of serviceable addresses earning >$30K/year. #digitaldiscrimination #digitalredlining
connectyourcommunity.org/fcc-broadban...
connectyourcommunity.org/fcc-broadban...
November 15, 2023 at 12:15 PM
Latest blog post from Bill Callahan at Connect Your Community shows digital redlining still a thing in Cleveland. AT&T only provides 2007-era DSL to 48% of serviceable addresses earning >$30K/year. #digitaldiscrimination #digitalredlining
connectyourcommunity.org/fcc-broadban...
connectyourcommunity.org/fcc-broadban...
#AT&T has been sued multiple times for #DigitalRedlining. File this under “of course they did.”
December 2, 2025 at 11:37 PM
#AT&T has been sued multiple times for #DigitalRedlining. File this under “of course they did.”
It’s all on purpose. Those with the least connectivity-Black, Latino and indigenous Americans, people with disabilities, underserved, and the elderly-have no importance to this administration. #DigitalRedlining is just another form of oppression.
#DigitalDivide
#DigitalApartheid
#DigitalDivide
#DigitalApartheid
September 14, 2025 at 10:03 PM
It’s all on purpose. Those with the least connectivity-Black, Latino and indigenous Americans, people with disabilities, underserved, and the elderly-have no importance to this administration. #DigitalRedlining is just another form of oppression.
#DigitalDivide
#DigitalApartheid
#DigitalDivide
#DigitalApartheid
I get that phones seem ubiquitous these days, but I worry that appifying college life could end up exacerbating inequalities and making life harder for already vulnerable students. 1/ 🧵
today.iu.edu/live/news/46...
today.iu.edu/live/news/46...
CrimsonCard goes digital, offering easy access to your IU ID and services
The digital CrimsonCard allows users to enter buildings, redeem meal points and print documents the same as before, but right from their phone or watch.
today.iu.edu
August 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
“…layered data from federal maps, corporate filings, and digital equity assessments support what residents in underserved neighborhoods have long experienced: slow, unreliable, or altogether absent broadband connections.” #DigitalRedlining
Broadband deserts in Milwaukee expose a form of digital redlining that mirrors historic inequalities | Milwaukee Independent
www.milwaukeeindependent.com
June 13, 2025 at 4:04 PM
“…layered data from federal maps, corporate filings, and digital equity assessments support what residents in underserved neighborhoods have long experienced: slow, unreliable, or altogether absent broadband connections.” #DigitalRedlining
