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Should The FCC Be Abolished?
stwrtpj writes "CNET is running an interesting commentary from its chief political correspondent explaining why the FCC should be abolished. When I saw this link from NewsForge, my initial reaction was that he was full of it, but after I RTFA, I have to admit that he makes some interesting points. So how about it? Should the FCC be abolished? Can the market regulate itself yet?"
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You should have stuck with your initial gut reaction. It was probably right.
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The worldwide IEEE should be abolished because the northamerican RTFA fucks us, it's an evilness for all the world.
"Remember my dear, I can smell a lie like a fart in a car."
- Hard Harry, Pump Up The Volume (the movie)
This would be sweet. Finally I could carry around a mobile jammer so some dickhead in the theatre doesn't interrupt the movie.
DISCLAIMER : I am a Libertarian and this MAY be a rant.
I believe that the government should not have control over the media. Period.
The airwaves wouldn't fall into disarray if it ceased to be, too many companies have too big a stake in media to allow it to fail. No, Chicken Little, if Nanny Government leaves, the sky will NOT begin falling.
The Government has no right to tell me what I can and cannot view. The Government has no duty to protect children from an exposed breast during the superbowl. The parents of a child old enough to watch and understand the game of (American) football, certianly should have explained at least that much of the facts of life to said child, or they are not very good at parenting.
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Some men are more equal than others. For the rest of us, there's Levitra. Ask your doctor if it's right for you.
Incidentally, I hear Thomas Jefferson was hung like the Liberty Bell.
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Insightful my ass. That uncoverer is a typical whine anti-producer, pro regulation and dogmatic butt wipe. You authoritarian douche bag.
If any agency deserves to go the way of the Dodo, it's the US patent office, not the FCC.
Sometimes I wish I was a plumber, then I'd know how to deal with other people's shit.
for purposes of argument, he'd like you to forget that, i don't doubt. but his agenda is not "more competition," it's more power and more money to those who already have power and money. he's a libertarian. after the fcc is gone -- surprise, let's get rid of anti-trust laws.
and while we're at it, since all gov't regulation of business is bad, let's get rid of environmental protection, worker safety rules, medical safety rules, anti-discrimination laws, as well. the libertarian premise is that if you die in an accident at work, your family can sue. that's the libertarian ideal of "protection" -- not that you have a right to live or to be protected from vicious and unscrupulous bosses, but that someone should have the right to a monetary profit from your death.
it's manifest that the fcc operates on the basis of what is best for large corporations. because the current operation of the fcc is bad does not mean that gov't regulation is bad -- that's a false argument. it means we need to rewrite the rules to keep the fcc from wasting our taxes on "content management." we need to return to the Constitutional concept of the "general welfare" of the citizenry. and the only way to do that is to kick out the republicans and other closet libertarians that currently control the rule-writing process in congress and the white house.
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