Wow, I don't know what the sub thread is really about here...
As for enlisting the radio show hosts: I have personally attempted several times to get both their attention and their listeners attention. So far the radio show hosts have been completely silent. It is difficult to read anything into that silence, but word has it that the parent owners may be pressuring them not to speak about it. Conspiracy minded, perhaps, but remember the parallel battle being waged against American consumer currently. The FCC will be making a decision next week, I believe, that will allow for even greater consolidation of ownership in radio and television. Knowing that lines of ownership have already crossed between communications service providers and the various programming and news companies it only makes sense that local radio and tv stations may be under pressure by distant parent companies to let the Super DMCA pass without comment.
As for the people that hang out at their web sites, geesh. What a pathetic bunch! They don't respond to information about this bill presented to them, they do get in big fights with each other over the rules of the forum, impeaching Bush, right wing vs. left wing and most anything else. I gave up.
Thanks for your input. In fact, your case has been used on several occaisions when speaking with legislators by the group Tennessee Digital Freedom. Take heart, your case has been noted. It might have been tempting to take the prior cowardly post about this being a Chicken Little issue too seriously and just give up. BUT, as that person who is obviously monitoring this venue must know, there isn't anything further from the truth. The lobbyist have been very deceptive, rude, and intimidating in their defense of their pet legislation. It would seem that the small but passionate group of people who came out to oppose this bill have really upset the plans of many lobbyist, legislators, and corporate executives who thought they had achieved a bloodless coup in our state. Perhaps they are also sickened at how cheaply the opposition derailed their mission. Even if some form of the bills passes, they will have spent many tens of thousands of dollars to get something that neither they or the opposition really want.
Next step: Regulations on all "communications service providers" and dropping the special status cable companies currently enjoy. As a libertarian I am normally averse to regulations on industry, but when legislation is passed which amounts to regulations on consumers then it becomes more than fair and absolutely necessary. They struck first blood, now we strike back!
And so you are so confident of your opinion that you must post anonymously. Chicken little may have erred in his perception, but not in his intent. Your argument that a laws detrimental affects are best proven in a court once the law is passed reveals much about your opinion of the general populace and your apparent belief that you are not among them. Why don't you reveal your true identity and relationship to this matter? Why don't you volunteer to be "test case #1"? And if it is chicken little that warned you would you still demean his existence then?
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Then why do you need an additional law if it is already illegal. Something smells in your logic, Leroy.
Wow, I don't know what the sub thread is really about here... As for enlisting the radio show hosts: I have personally attempted several times to get both their attention and their listeners attention. So far the radio show hosts have been completely silent. It is difficult to read anything into that silence, but word has it that the parent owners may be pressuring them not to speak about it. Conspiracy minded, perhaps, but remember the parallel battle being waged against American consumer currently. The FCC will be making a decision next week, I believe, that will allow for even greater consolidation of ownership in radio and television. Knowing that lines of ownership have already crossed between communications service providers and the various programming and news companies it only makes sense that local radio and tv stations may be under pressure by distant parent companies to let the Super DMCA pass without comment. As for the people that hang out at their web sites, geesh. What a pathetic bunch! They don't respond to information about this bill presented to them, they do get in big fights with each other over the rules of the forum, impeaching Bush, right wing vs. left wing and most anything else. I gave up.
Thanks for your input. In fact, your case has been used on several occaisions when speaking with legislators by the group Tennessee Digital Freedom. Take heart, your case has been noted. It might have been tempting to take the prior cowardly post about this being a Chicken Little issue too seriously and just give up. BUT, as that person who is obviously monitoring this venue must know, there isn't anything further from the truth. The lobbyist have been very deceptive, rude, and intimidating in their defense of their pet legislation. It would seem that the small but passionate group of people who came out to oppose this bill have really upset the plans of many lobbyist, legislators, and corporate executives who thought they had achieved a bloodless coup in our state. Perhaps they are also sickened at how cheaply the opposition derailed their mission. Even if some form of the bills passes, they will have spent many tens of thousands of dollars to get something that neither they or the opposition really want. Next step: Regulations on all "communications service providers" and dropping the special status cable companies currently enjoy. As a libertarian I am normally averse to regulations on industry, but when legislation is passed which amounts to regulations on consumers then it becomes more than fair and absolutely necessary. They struck first blood, now we strike back!
You really could have started your own thread... you know?
And so you are so confident of your opinion that you must post anonymously. Chicken little may have erred in his perception, but not in his intent. Your argument that a laws detrimental affects are best proven in a court once the law is passed reveals much about your opinion of the general populace and your apparent belief that you are not among them. Why don't you reveal your true identity and relationship to this matter? Why don't you volunteer to be "test case #1"? And if it is chicken little that warned you would you still demean his existence then?
Has anyone else noticed how "blackcomb" is one letter different from "blackbomb"? I wonder how much someone got paid for that one?