I'm urging the FCC to take a different course -- one that preserves the Internet as an open marketplace where everyone can continue to participate on equal footing, regardless of one's wealth or power.
The competition takes place on a level playing field, where every country has a chance to participate on equal terms.
In 1964 an agreement was concluded enabling Yugoslavia to participate on equal terms with Comecon members in the areas of trade, finance, currency, and industry.
He views religious freedom as being enhanced, not diminished, if we allow religious institutions and groups to participate on equal terms with nonreligious organizations in government programs where there is no threat to individual religious liberty.
We wish to underline that ultimately, it is the responsibility of the government to ensure that all political parties, including the opposition and its leaders, are able to participate on equal terms.
During the tumultuous late-1960s, Chief Justice Earl Warren declared that most of the country's problems could be solved through the political process if everyone "has the opportunity to participate on equal terms with everyone else and can share in electing representatives who will be representative of the entire community and not of some special interest".
Every citizen, therefore, should participate on equal terms, as far as practically feasible, in the exercise of political rule.
Digital privacy remains a cross-cutting element in shaping (and in this case, limiting) the capacity of women and men to participate on equal terms in the information society.
And we won: The FCC changed its mind and decided to adopt bright-line rules to preserve net neutrality, ensuring that the Internet will remain a place where everyone can participate on equal footing, without fast and slow lanes, and free from interference from the big ISPs.
Also, this study calls for the need of changing society's mindset about the social constructed roles and ownership of property that would enable women to participate on equal footing with men in business activities and to contribute to economic development from the household level to the national level at large.
