Broadcast Flag Sneak Not Attempted

Trizero writes "THOMAS, one of the best sources for Congressional action on the Internet has shown that no amendments occured to the CJS Appropriations Bill. Monday, Slashdot covered the EFF announcing a rumor that a senator was attempting to sneak an amendment to bring the Broadcast Flag into law. From THOMAS (scroll down to the bottom): "6/21/2005: Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies. Approved for full committee consideration without amendment favorably." Translation: No one attempted to sneak the Broadcast flag into law." Update: 06/22 18:55 GMT by J : The EFF's new Activism Coordinator, Danny O'Brien, sees this as a victory for swift citizen action. Impressive numbers. Nice work by EFF and Public Knowledge, and everyone who raised their voice.

Comments

Re:So what happened?

[0xABADC0DA]

If anything, there was something far more insidious going on elsewhere and this was an attempt to divert the all powerful Slashdot crowd's attention to something worthless.

You mean like installing a traffic camera on Sesame Street to catch the liberal bias? Or the new Big Bird Sandwich at Hardee's?

Only like 5% max of the people should be republican; the rest are uneducated, uninformed, or bigots. That's why eliminating mass education will always trump non-skippable commercials in tivo.

First Against the Wall...

[SeanDuggan]

Hmmm... on the other hand, they now have a list of all of the people who are being UnAmerican and opposing government control of the airwaves. First against the wall, anyone?