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Reason Interviews Michael Powell

Posted by samzenpus on from the no-exposed-nipple dept.

Phlinn writes "In the Reason interview with Michael Powell, it is possible to develop a clearer understanding of the FCC's recent actions. It would appear that despite recent actions, he's not the pro censorship icon many people think. Beware of actions based on a "greater good" however."

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  1. A puppet for the right wing. by zymano · · Score: 0, Troll

    He's just a republican lackey.

    I don't know what he's contributed .

    Affordable broadband ? I don't see it. He's stopped competition in that industry.

    He's 'DESTROYED' radio with monopolies like Clear Channel.

    So here's a toast to those that think everything should be allowed by corporate america without regard of the greater public good.

  2. Michael Powell and his daddy by multiplexo · · Score: -1, Troll
    are a couple of porch monkeys for the Bush administration. I used to admire General Powell, buf after watching him sell his integrity for Gulf War, the sequel I was disgusted. His son is no better. As far as I can see the FCC's push to penalize "indecency" on the airwaves has two motivations. It pleases right wing X-tians, who are too fucking stupid to change the channel on their TV or radio or turn the thing off, and it transfers money out of the pockets of broadcasters and into the coffers of the FCC. In effect a tax increase.

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  3. he got interviewed by a gauss gun? by Avial · · Score: 0, Troll

    Last I remember, Reason was a nuclear-powered gauss gun or something that fired depleted uranium rounds.

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  4. Re:Flip-flop - not at all by FredThompson · · Score: 0, Troll

    The question was not, "What are definitions of 'wrinting' and 'printing.'"

    Sigh, I guess I'll have to give the class the answer.

    The quoted excerpt from the Bill of Rights can only be interpreted to have meant verbal language created from human lips and printing presses. There was no form of recording of sound and no method of amplified transmission. All printing presses in the Colonies were controlled by the Monarch of England. (sidebar: there were lots of other limits placed on the Colonists including a prohibition on owning metal tools. Imagine trying to dig in rocky soil with a wooden shovel. That exact situation led to illegal manufacture and sale of metal tools by the Colonists. The offset handle common to shovels was a Colonial invention as well.) The very fact that the list includes the two specific items of speech and printing presses reinforces these definitions. The concept of "speech" to include recorded or non-verbal expression came far later.

  5. Re:actions vs. words by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    "Good men?"

    You do know Colin Powell was a social climber to end all social climbers. There was never a narcissist like him. He played the guilty undertow in the media and public for his skin color all the way to the cabinet, adn he may yet get to the White House that way.