Sewing up control of electronic media
(from daily kos...)
he may be right about it being a bigger story... slowly but surely, the pieces are coming together... the telecoms, in return for their campaign contributions and for supplying the nsa with customer phone record data, get to rake in massively bigger profits through scaled internet service... the internet becomes restricted to what those telecoms (and the government) WANT us to be able to access... the nsa will be keeping records of every web site visited by every customer over a two-year period... access to television programming is ALREADY restricted to what the providers choose to carry... they're floating a proposal to change fcc rules to allow the bigs to own ALL types of media outlets in a given locality... why is nobody out there (except bloggers, of course) putting these pieces together...? Submit To Propeller
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COPE passes without Net Neutrality Hotlist
by j sundman [Subscribe]
Fri Jun 09, 2006 at 04:37:21 AM PDT
The horrible COPE bill, which serves up our Internet as a nice little garnish on a fat juicey meal of money and power to the Telephone & Cable companies (who have become, not incidentally, another arm of the authoritarian regime now in power), passed the House last night. The Markey amendment, which would have protected Net Neutrality, failed by 117 votes, of which 58 came from Democrats. Eleven Republicans and one independent voted with the good guys on this one.
Call me a pessimist, but I think this is a bigger story than YearlyKos or Coulter or Al Zaquari (?spelling?).
he may be right about it being a bigger story... slowly but surely, the pieces are coming together... the telecoms, in return for their campaign contributions and for supplying the nsa with customer phone record data, get to rake in massively bigger profits through scaled internet service... the internet becomes restricted to what those telecoms (and the government) WANT us to be able to access... the nsa will be keeping records of every web site visited by every customer over a two-year period... access to television programming is ALREADY restricted to what the providers choose to carry... they're floating a proposal to change fcc rules to allow the bigs to own ALL types of media outlets in a given locality... why is nobody out there (except bloggers, of course) putting these pieces together...? Submit To Propeller
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6/09/2006
