AT&T May Have Digitally Redlined Poor Communities In Cleveland With Slower Internet
“Redlining is nothing new however. As The Grio reported, it ‘refers to the process that lenders used to rely on in which loans were denied to people from low-income areas. While companies claimed that the process was used because such people were considered a liability, it was often instead used to discriminate against minorities and others until the Fair Housing Act of 1968 and the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977.’ The only difference now is it’s being done digitally.”