20 Lawmakers Want to Kill Your Television

Macki writes "As previously mentioned, the Broadcast Flag is back before congress. There are 20 law makers currently supporting the bill. The insane thing about it is the fact that no one supports the bill except a handful of entertainment companies. Probably not even the employees of the entertainment companies. It's bad enough they want to break our televisions, but the way that they are subverting democracy is just astounding. Danny O'Brien at the EFF has done a spectacular job deconstructingthe MPAA/RIAA's efforts to ramrod this through, and more importantly, the motivations of the members of congress who are helping them."

Comments

Re:We all know how this will work out.

[ifwm]

Insightful my eye.

Parent displays open, unadulterated bigotry, and you idiots mod it insightful.

Re:bad argument in the article summary

[mikesmind]

People generally have peoples best interests at heart.

I notice that you didn't touch on the abortion issue. Babies are people too.

Re:Fox Just In the Henhouse

[Surt]

In all fairness, Frist is R, he's supposed to be evil. Barbara Boxer is D, and she's supposed to be on our side.

Re:Fox Just In the Henhouse

[Doc Ruby]

They're only on the side of those with access to them. Republicans give access almost exclusively to their corporate bribers. Democrats are forced to pick from among who's left. Which leaves lots of competing interests, including those corporate bribers who can't outbid those bribing the Republicans. So while it's easy to distrust the Republicans (unless you've got a phat corporation), that doesn't make it easy to trust the Democrats.

The false dictomy hides a governing duopoly, and the lesser of two evils is still evil. I say nothing to defend Boxer in that post (though she has taken risks to lead in the face of overwhelming sabotage by Republicans of our country). I merely point out that anyone who cries "fox" in a henhouse, while ignoring the slavering Frist in the Senate, is on the side of the foxes.

Boxer (Dem hypocrite) loves the Broadcast Flag

[ccmay]

I don't see her on the list.

No shit, Sherlock. That's because she's a Senator, not a Representative.

Be assured that she is firmly in the pocket of the Hollywood fat cats on this. In fact, she co-sponsored the bill in the Senate.

Democrats have historically been more servile than Republicans to the entertainment industry moguls, despite their pious declarations of support for the interests of the little guy, and their campaign donations reflect this.

-ccm