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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."
It's ironic that you would equate the the Great Emancipation with abortion, seeing as how the spirit of the latter is the opposite of the former (that is, treating someone as something less than a person).
Not necessarily. If you happen to not believe that abortion is always murder, there is no ironic juxtaposition here: the legalisation of abortion represents a crucial moment for the emancipation of women, just as the Great Emancipation was a crucial moment for the emancipation of black slaves.