FCC:FU!
Body: You will enjoy this. A lot. It occurs to me, serious and unfunny person that I am, that it makes a lot of sense for our side, and those Powers That Be in the Party in particular, reach out to...
View ArticleRepublican Found to Have (Gasp!) Ethics
Body: The accelerating rush to re-amalgamate the entire US phone system (the breakup of which was just about the last gasp of active antitrust enforcement) has hit a speed bump. One of the FCC...
View ArticleConsolidations of Authoritarianism: Bureaucracy Edition
Body: These stories have nothing to do with each other, except that they do. The six-year campaign to get Certain People put in charge of all those alphabetic agencies in Washington is bearing fruit....
View ArticleKevin Martin is a total asshole
Body: Check out Bill Moyers on media consolidation. Kevin Martin (a Republican, bien sur) convened the FCC's final public hearing on media consolidation on just five business days' notice: He intends...
View ArticleComCast Flunkies Deny Activists Seat
Body: You prolly saw this already but it pissed me off and I need to blog on it. Goodwin can suck it; isn't this how the SA got started? Or at least, there's some rhyming going on here. It's never a...
View ArticleMore Media Consolidation Coming
Body: In a sort of sick way, I'm almost glad for this update from our friends at BAR. Because it means I'm going to have even more soap for my favorite soapbox, which is "turn it off, it's killing you."
View ArticleWhen do we start filing complaints with the FCC?
Body: Fox Fabricates 'Death Book' for VetsSo when do we start filing complaints with the FCC in a systematic effort to get Murdoch's FCC license pulled? And when do we start to contact his...
View ArticleToday in bait and switch
Body: So, the FCC tries to regulate Broadband, and the courts turns them back. Instead of asserting greater authority to regulate the Internet by reclassifying broadband as a "Title II" service, they...
View ArticleMic Check!! Occupy Atlanta Demands FCC Stop Privatizations, Grant New...
Body: Occupy Atlanta confronted two FCC members at a public meeting last week, demanded
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