Press Release
For Immediate Release
On May 16, Children’s Health Defense and 50 other nonprofits, safe technology and disability advocacy groups filed legal comments with the Federal Communications Commission in response to the FCC’s request for comment on how to “prevent and eliminate digital discrimination.” The proceeding was required by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and President Biden’s Executive Order 13985. The cosigners include Frank Clegg, former president of Microsoft Canada and founder of Canadians for Safe Technology and Dr. Kent Chamberlin, of New Hampshire’s pioneering 5G Commission.
Children’s Health Defense (CHD) and the other “Advocates for the EMS disabled” called for acceptance, affirmance and inclusion of the Electromagnetically Sensitive or EMS disabled community, an increasingly large swath of the disability community that has been harmed by wireless technology such as cell towers, smart meters, Wi-Fi and mobile phones.
EMS is a term that has been used since 2002 by the U.S. Access Board, an …