FCC Delays Vote On Cable TV Regulation

Tech.Luver recommends a story unfolding at the FCC, where Chairman Kevin Martin delayed a vote on a report that would open the door to more agency control over the cable television industry. Analysts say that Martin lacked support to pass the measure. The delayed vote was on a draft report, backed by Martin, that found that cable companies control enough of the pay-TV market to warrant more oversight under the so-called "70/70" rule — 70% of US households passed by cable and 70% of those with access to cable service subscribing to it. The cable industry disputed the figures in the report, and Martin's two fellow Republican commission members also expressed doubts.

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Fuck the FCC

[corsec67]

Why does the FCC get to censor the airwaves?
Just because they are "public"?
Or even worse, signals that people pay for that are sent along copper, as is the case they are trying to get to here?
Can police arrest me for saying "Fuck" in a public place?
What part about Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech is so hard to understand?

Re:Just what we need.

[renegadesx]

The FCC and international equvilents should rather heavily regulate whats ON the cable networks, they should do more to heavily regulate how these cable providers conduct their business.

Mind you im biased and consider social conservitive values to be evil