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FCC Chair Says Broadband Top Goal
Carl Bialik from the WSJ writes "FCC chairman Kevin Martin says 'his top goal is to increase Americans access to high-speed Internet,' the Wall Street Journal reports. 'Late last week, he began circulating plans to loosen rules so neither phone nor cable companies will be required to share their Internet connections with competitors like America Online, a change that essentially would create a duopoly in many local markets. He also embraces the idea that local governments should be allowed to offer wireless Internet services, at least in rural areas where some phone and cable companies balk at providing high-speed service.' The Journal also has a transcript of its interview with Martin, in which he discusses indecency and whether broadcast rules should also apply to satellite and cable."
they were always coming up with 5-year-plans to reach this goal or that level of something or other.
I live in Illinois, in the central US. I live in one of the poorest counties in the state. In my county, about 400 sq mi, there are less than 10,000 people. Most of them live in trailers and broken-down farm houses, just making ends meet, or selling the place because they can't.
We've got broadband.
Why do bureaucrats think they have to manage the economy? Here's a suggestion: Quit your job so I can quit paying your salary.
Maybe then I'll be able to start up a WiFi ISP in the next county over, where they're really hard up.
Raise your children as if you were teaching them to raise your grandchildren, because you are.
Why? Shouldn't the parents just not buy products that don't offer them the controls they want? All TVs and desktop computers I've encountered have an off switch and there's nothing the government can do to get people to use them. How are more switches, knobs, dials, control panels, etc. going to help anything?
if it was the 1950's and only one parent had to work, then we would not need government intervention. not to mention, there is so much offensive programming on television today. have you seen some of the rap videos on MTV. those are real good values for a 10 year old to learn.
it is like the monday night football TO and desperate houswives promo. that never should have been on tv. how many dads want to watch football with their kids? and to have a kid exposed to that is horrible. what lessons were taught? a black guy decides his responsibility to his team is meaningless when he can have a peice of tail who he has met for the first time. they should have had part 2 of that episode next week- the woman gets aids and dies.
i'll give one last example. i was watching a sit com, one that is pretty funny. one night, they decided to have an episode where they showcased a gay guy. wtf? episodes should have warnings ahead of time. nobody wants to see that crap.
i think i am going to look for an advocacy group, one that wants to remove offensive skits from tv. one that will sue the television companies, and file complaints with the FCC on my behalf. a special interest group that will tell the government my community does not want homosexuals, lesbians, or anything offensive on tv. and get rid of all the alcohol advertising. can't a dad and his son watch a baseball game without seeing 100 different advertisments for beer?
until then, we need more government regulations. i don't care about violence, that is good clean fun. but get the sex off tv.
Rosco: "If brains were gunpowder, Enos couldn't blow his nose."
While I was initially fairly scared of the vchip I have to say that it's final implementation was very banal and actually a usefull tool to empower proactive parents to help screen the content their children are watching.
My interpretation of this was "it lets even spineless little gits who don't have what it takes to *actually parent* their children to at least pretend to do the job they signed up for when they spawned the little brats".
Max
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