tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post3167292682042434652..comments2024-03-28T08:06:43.198-04:00Comments on The Silicon Graybeard: Tales From the Over-Regulated StateSiGraybeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-33834439865061392112011-06-05T19:37:12.875-04:002011-06-05T19:37:12.875-04:00Tax code revisions would be applied to support the...Tax code revisions would be applied to support the Left, as with NPR, and limit the Right, as with Limbaugh, Hannity, etc. Subsidies for the Left, and higher taxation for the Right, so the "wealth" can be more evenly distributed. Obviously the Left is being discriminated against, since not enough people wish to listen to it. Not enough to entice major advertisers to purchase access to that "market".<br /><br />Will we see a time in the near future where businesses and public places will be required to air content from the Left, so as to be sure they aren't discriminated against? If we can be made to purchase medical insurance we do not want, why not be forced to listen to NPR or other fonts of liberal "wisdom" and "news" at your local restaurant, or waiting in a train station, or in your doctor's office?<br /><br />Sound far-fetched? Don't bet on it. And don't expect it to work the other way. Don't expect Hollywood to suddenly be forced to produce films with conservative content. "Atlas Shrugged" is an aberration, a on-off that won't be repeated any time soon. Your usual anti-gun/anti-liberty/anti-military content will certainly continue unabated.Reg Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-10469347172437976842011-06-05T10:15:04.602-04:002011-06-05T10:15:04.602-04:00BS Footprint - that's an excellent piece. I t...BS Footprint - that's an excellent piece. I think it's the first thing I read over at your place. Still a classic. <br /><br />It's all very believable. The net is freedom. "Free Press" is absolutely devoted to killing off any diversity of opinion. <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2010/06/11/the-neomarxist-who-is-helping-to-influence-obamas-media-policy/#ixzz0qWhm7sGr" rel="nofollow">McChesney</a> said in his manifesto the fed.gov should:<br /> (Establish) a 'journalism’ division of AmeriCorps” to “ensure that young people who love journalism will stay in the field”<br /> Provide “a tax credit to news organizations for every journalist they employ”<br /> <b>“Establishe citizenship news vouchers”</b><br /> “Increase postal subsidies for newspapers and periodicals”<br /> A tax on news aggregators, <b>or even a policy to make news aggregation sites, like the Drudge Report, illegal</b><br /> The allocation of roughly $35 billion in public news subsidies<br /> A five percent tax on consumer electronics<br /> A ISP cell phone tax<br /> A revision of the tax code to allow for more nonprofit media<br /><br />"McChesney wrote in the Marxist journal Monthly Review that "any serious effort to reform the media system would have to necessarily be part of a revolutionary program to overthrow the capitalist system itself."<br /><br />This is the death of freedom of information, and FCC chairman Julius Genachowski is his personal peg boy. Genachowski then hired a guy to be in charge of broadcasting who is dedicated to <a href="http://spectator.org/archives/2010/01/26/the-fccs-war-on-broadcasting" rel="nofollow">destroying broadcasting. </a><br /><br />Their aim seems to be to duplicate the USSR system, where we have only government provided news: Pravda and Izvetzia. <br /><br />Wanna take a bet both of our blogs are shut down before the 2012 election?SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-74739704890927280812011-06-05T02:57:17.185-04:002011-06-05T02:57:17.185-04:00That cross-country motorcycle ride is looking bett...That cross-country motorcycle ride is looking better all the time. Unless they outlaw that, too.<br /><br />Some might say hey won't be happy until they've <a href="http://bsfootprint.com/politics-and-politicians/why-not-regulate-speech-as-seriously-as-toys" rel="nofollow">killed the internet</a>.BS Footprinthttp://bsfootprint.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-37344953537224903132011-06-04T21:25:13.009-04:002011-06-04T21:25:13.009-04:00I see criminalizing YouTube as a classic example o...I see criminalizing YouTube as a classic example of small minds regulating that which they don't understand. <br /><br />As for the FCC, they have outlived their usefulness by half a century and need to be shut down as we try to cut the budget. Or, at best, reduced to a tenth of their current size. They can't do the technical stuff any more - they don't understand the new technology and think they can create new physics.SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-91065299851514989772011-06-04T10:58:13.120-04:002011-06-04T10:58:13.120-04:00It's the same old "stuff the cat back in ...It's the same old "stuff the cat back in the bag, quick, before anyone notices" reaction we see throughout history. Instead of adapting their rules to the new reality, those in power demand that reality adapt to fit their rules.Joannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10952078709114872197noreply@blogger.com