 In a "Wall Street Journal" op-ed the following day, McDowell warned that further action by the FCC would only encourage other governments across the globe to regulate the Net as well, including through international treaties.In 2007, McDowell led an effort with then-FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein to adopt a proposal first made in 1984 by the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters (NABOB) to ban the use of racially discriminatory so-called "no urban, no Hispanic dictates" in broadcast advertising.This anti-discrimination rule became the first new federal civil rights rule adopted in a generation.