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EFF: 48 Hours to Stop the Broadcast Flag

Posted by timothy on from the hard-not-to-be-cynical dept.

The Importance of writes "Think the Broadcast Flag is dead? EFF is warning that Hollywood is trying to sneak the broadcast flag into law as an amendment to a massive appropriations bill. 'If what we hear is true, the provision will be introduced before a subcommittee tomorrow and before the full appropriations committee on Thursday. That gives us 48 hours to stop it.' Action Alert here. List of Senator's phone numbers here."

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  1. Oh Crap.. by firew0lfz · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    This shit has got to stop.

    First the Real ID Act..

    Now this...

    When? When will it end?

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  2. What the heck??? by piett134 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    When did slashdot become a political action group? Posting senators numbers? I thought this was a purely a tech/geek-news site. They are doing this more and more, and are starting to instead become another lame lobbying group.