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Daily Egyptian MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2014 VOLUME 98 ISSUE 134
No severance for Darren Wilson, mayor says Steve Giegerich St. Louis Post-Dispatch
On Sunday Mayor James Knowles III announced measures intended to increase the minority presence on the police force, open a dialogue between residents and law enforcement and encourage more officers to reside in Ferguson. In a message directed at activists continuing to protest the death of Michael Brown, Knowles said the city will not award a severance package to Darren Wilson, the
Ferguson officer who resigned Saturday nearly four months after shooting Brown on a Ferguson street. “As far as the city of Ferguson is concerned we have now severed ties with Officer Darren Wilson,” the mayor said at a news conference. “It is important for us to talk about issues directly related to the city of Ferguson and what issues we can directly address as a city moving forward to bring our community together.” Knowles said Wilson informed Ferguson
Police Chief Tom Jackson of the resignation by telephone. A resignation letter was delivered to the city attorney Saturday night, several hours after Wilson’s lawyers released its contents to the news media. A decision by a St. Louis County grand jury not to file criminal charges against Wilson in Brown’s death sparked renewed rioting Nov. 24. Demonstrations in the ensuing days— including protests at area shopping malls during the holiday weekend—have remained mostly peaceful.
Impressing with paint: four decades strong
L ewis M arien D aiLy e gyptian Missy Carstens, of Marion, works on a painting Sunday at the Southern Illinois Art and Artisans Center in Whittington. Carstens, an impressionist painter who put on an artisan demonstration for visitors at the center, said she has been painting for about 40 years. “I love doing it and the paintings sell pretty well,” Carstens said. The painting, according to Carstens, is part of a series she has shown at local wineries in the area. “I really enjoy going out to the wineries [with my work], my husband drinks the wine while I paint,” Carstens said.
Status of net neutrality regulations unclear Marissa Novel
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President Barack Obama said in a statement in November the public has contacted the Federal Communication Commission nearly 4 million times asking them to enforce net neutrality changes. The FCC recently changed regulations regarding Internet service providers’ ability to limit their services in 2010, but was sued in January for not
classifying the providers properly. In the same statement, Obama asked the FCC to reclassify Internet service providers to ensure net neutrality, or that the Internet and its services remain a freely accessible commodity. “Americans are making their voices heard and standing up for the principles that make the Internet a powerful force for change,” he said. “As long as I’m president, that’s what I’ll be fighting for, too.” Many groups support Obama’s
stance, including the nonprofit organization Electronic Frontier Foundation. Jeremy Gillula, a staff technologist for the foundation, said EFF ensures people’s civil liberties and privacy are not at risk in the emergence of new technological advancements. “Whether that’s the Internet, drones or police use of technologies,” said Jeremy Gillula, a staff technologist for the foundation.
Gillula said the FCC attempted to enact net neutrality rules in 2010 that would protect users’ rights, but was sued by Verizon shortly after. He said the FCC’s rules incorrectly classified Verizon and other broadband service providers as common carriers, which are companies that transport goods on regular routes at set rates. In January, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled in the Verizon vs. FCC case that the
FCC is not allowed to restrict broadband service providers and common carriers in the same way, in accordance with the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Gillula said common carriers, like phone companies, must provide services equally among all of their customers. He said the FCC published new rules following the case that did not reclassify the service providers as common carriers which essentially did nothing. Please see NEUTRALITY · 2