I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why?A transcript of his entire speech.
-Stevens
Showing posts with label Politico. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Politico. Show all posts
Monday, July 17, 2006
Net Neutrality
If you want to laugh check out this video from the a recent Daily Show episode. Jon Stewart on Net Neutrality. It is basically Ted Stevens (Senator from Alaska) who is the HEAD of the commerce committee showing the world just how well he understands the bill he voted against. I fear the future.
Tuesday, January 3, 2006
RIAA going to court with mother of five
Finally, someone with enough courage to actually say no to the RIAA! Lets all open our wallets and join her battle cry!
(If you do not know whats going on: Patti Santangelo goes mainstream)
(If you do not know whats going on: Patti Santangelo goes mainstream)
I'm willing to take it as far as I have to to prevent other innocent people from being dragged into frivolous lawsuits
Patricia Santangelo - CBS Early Show
Sunday, April 10, 2005
FCC threatening Cable TV
The new FCC chairman is making noise that he "decency standards" will be coming to Cable TV if it does not voluntarily clean up its act.
>The FCC's new chairman warned cable companies yesterday they need to do a better job of addressing growing concerns over television indecency if they want to avoid regulation from Congress. . . .
>In reaction, Stevens and others in Congress have indicated they think cable companies should be regulated similarly to broadcasters when it comes to indecency rules.(link)
Why does the US government feel they need to protect me from myself? I subscribe to this service, if I had issues with its content I could just cancel.
Here is another article on the same issue
>Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) and the new FCC Chair Kevin Martin want to extend censorship to cable TV (something one must pay for and which does not use the public airwaves) and even to satellite radio, according to the reports I have been reading.(link)
Despite being unregulated by the FCC all cable channels regulate themselves. Most channels will bleep out cuss words and blur nudity. The obvious question is why do they do this when they are not required to? It is because the market regulates what is acceptable. If a channel offends its target audience they will lose viewers and advertisers will be less likely to fund programs. If the FCC thinks that cable is becoming more indecent than it can only mean this sort of behavior is becoming more acceptable in society. If everyone felt the same way as the FCC shows like south park would instantly be pulled due to lack of viewers.
>The FCC's new chairman warned cable companies yesterday they need to do a better job of addressing growing concerns over television indecency if they want to avoid regulation from Congress. . . .
>In reaction, Stevens and others in Congress have indicated they think cable companies should be regulated similarly to broadcasters when it comes to indecency rules.(link)
Why does the US government feel they need to protect me from myself? I subscribe to this service, if I had issues with its content I could just cancel.
Here is another article on the same issue
>Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) and the new FCC Chair Kevin Martin want to extend censorship to cable TV (something one must pay for and which does not use the public airwaves) and even to satellite radio, according to the reports I have been reading.(link)
Despite being unregulated by the FCC all cable channels regulate themselves. Most channels will bleep out cuss words and blur nudity. The obvious question is why do they do this when they are not required to? It is because the market regulates what is acceptable. If a channel offends its target audience they will lose viewers and advertisers will be less likely to fund programs. If the FCC thinks that cable is becoming more indecent than it can only mean this sort of behavior is becoming more acceptable in society. If everyone felt the same way as the FCC shows like south park would instantly be pulled due to lack of viewers.
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Eyes on the Senate
[Downhill Battle]:http://www.downhillbattle.org/
[campaign]:http://www.downhillbattle.org/eyes/
[reporting]:http://downhillbattle.org/node/view/439
[Downhill Battle][] recently had a [campaign][] to get as many showings of the famous civil rights documentary "Eyes on the Prize" going as possible because the film is not allowed to be distributed due to the creators losing their license on certain clips in the film. At first DB distributed the video via blogtorrent. After about two days that got pulled due to legal threats, but many showings still went on all over the country. In a possitive turn of events DB is [reporting][]
>At the same time, Sen. Landrieu is in the process of working on very interesting legislation to help "Eyes" and other historical films out (we will divulge more info on this amazing turn of events here in the future)
If the bill really does get introduced I hope everyone spreads the word, I know I will do my best to tell my friends and call my senators. Our history should not be owned and if the restrictive copyright system we have put in place is burying our past something must be done!
[campaign]:http://www.downhillbattle.org/eyes/
[reporting]:http://downhillbattle.org/node/view/439
[Downhill Battle][] recently had a [campaign][] to get as many showings of the famous civil rights documentary "Eyes on the Prize" going as possible because the film is not allowed to be distributed due to the creators losing their license on certain clips in the film. At first DB distributed the video via blogtorrent. After about two days that got pulled due to legal threats, but many showings still went on all over the country. In a possitive turn of events DB is [reporting][]
>At the same time, Sen. Landrieu is in the process of working on very interesting legislation to help "Eyes" and other historical films out (we will divulge more info on this amazing turn of events here in the future)
If the bill really does get introduced I hope everyone spreads the word, I know I will do my best to tell my friends and call my senators. Our history should not be owned and if the restrictive copyright system we have put in place is burying our past something must be done!
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