Broadcast Flag 2 - Electric Boogaloo

blamanj wrote to mention that, a week after we reported on the court rejection of the broadcast flag, the MPAA is working on new legislation to broaden the FCC's power. From the article: "The draft bill says, simply, that the FCC will 'have authority to adopt regulations governing digital television apparatus necessary to control the indiscriminate redistribution of digital television broadcast content over digital networks.' The DC Circuit nixed the flag on the grounds that the FCC didn't have the authority. This language would clear that up." Update: 05/13 19:20 GMT by Z : Title amended with apologies to the Bugaloos.

Comments

Re:Legislative body

[Dun Malg]

That's because the current crop of academics and artists hate transcendence just as much, love arbitrary power just as much, want to throw off individual moral constraints just as much, and allow race to define character just as much as the early fascists

Who are these academics and artists?

He probably means college educated white liberal democrats who attack any public display of religion as violation of the separation of church and state, think the answer to most problems is a fresh new government bureaucracy, believe all morality os relative, and think the only way the negro will ever achieve parity is via enforced reverse discrimination.

(please note: I hold neither this view nor the reverse. I'm rephrasing what it seemed he was getting at)

Re:Just because they're out to get you

[WillAffleck]

Citizen, the State thanks you for voluntarily reporting desecration of the flag. Please report to the nearest vaporization facility immediately.

Yes, comrade. All hail the People's Republic of Bush!