FCC Restrictions

[Haller]

I come bearing frightening news. It seems as if the FCC is voting to lift the restrictions on media monopolies. If this happens, all the media will eventually controlled by some huge media conglomerate. Great news for major media companies like Disney, and AOL Time Warner. But bad news for us musicians and artists. If these restrictions are lifted....anticipate hearing the same brainless song on every radio station across the company. But there is an upside to all of this. We have the vastly unrestricted internet to use as a means of expression. We can put art back into the hands of the artists...not the executives. Record your music onto mp3's and send them out, take digital pictures of paintings, and sculptures. Post your poetry and books online. Art can't be limited to one companies interpretation, and it's time to make that known.
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[no0b]

yes...

 

[MrHappyMonkey]

ok...

 

[FoBoT]

so are you an anti-capitalist commie pinko ?

 

[her209]

Unless the RIAA gets a hold of it

 

[Haller]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
so are you an anti-capitalist commie pinko ?

I have my issues with capitalism, having to pay exorbinant prices for things like health care, and education when the government is supposed to watch for the good of it's citizens is one of them. To put it simply, the FCC lifting it's restriction on media monopolies will result in a cookie cutter homogenous form of expression that caters to one persons morals and opinions. Which, to me, slightly resembles Communist rule under Stalin, and the Fascist dictatorship of Hitler. America claims to be about individual freedom of expression, and this ruling will go directly against that claim.

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: Haller

Originally posted by: FoBoT
so are you an anti-capitalist commie pinko ?

I have my issues with capitalism, having to pay exorbinant prices for things like health care, and education when the government is supposed to watch for the good of it's citizens is one of them. To put it simply, the FCC lifting it's restriction on media monopolies will result in a cookie cutter homogenous form of expression that caters to one persons morals and opinions. Which, to me, slightly resembles Communist rule under Stalin, and the Fascist dictatorship of Hitler. America claims to be about individual freedom of expression, and this ruling will go directly against that claim.

so do you believe that people in the Bush administration made these changes specifically for thier friends in "Big Business" ? so that thier buddies in large corporations could build these large conglomerates? or were there other motivations?

 

[Haller]

Originally posted by: FoBoT

Originally posted by: Haller

Originally posted by: FoBoT
so are you an anti-capitalist commie pinko ?

I have my issues with capitalism, having to pay exorbinant prices for things like health care, and education when the government is supposed to watch for the good of it's citizens is one of them. To put it simply, the FCC lifting it's restriction on media monopolies will result in a cookie cutter homogenous form of expression that caters to one persons morals and opinions. Which, to me, slightly resembles Communist rule under Stalin, and the Fascist dictatorship of Hitler. America claims to be about individual freedom of expression, and this ruling will go directly against that claim.

so do you believe that people in the Bush administration made these changes specifically for thier friends in "Big Business" ? so that thier buddies in large corporations could build these large conglomerates? or were there other motivations?

I don't believe that Bush is acting any differently from past Presidents. It's a know fact that many Presidents get their campaign contributions from large corporations, and pass laws in their favor as a kickback. It's a fault of the system that most modern Presidents have succumbed to unfortunately.

 

[morkinva]

Bump for the possible horrors of cross-media ownership to be voted on.... Tuesday?

 

[Mill]

Wrong forum. No serious discussion of Politics or News will survive here.