The Glade 4.0

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It is up to the Federal Government to regulate to make sure it represents the local community, be it political speech or a gardening show...not sure ow many ways I can say **** the FCC, damn them to hell you over reaching nanny state ****.

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"Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
— Alan Moore

I'll take the FCC over my ISP deciding that every website except Google is getting a surcharge to access, and I can't do anything about it because they own the infrastructure and noone can compete with them.

I never understood this, no one can compete or beat this monopoly! Be afraid be afraid of the free market!

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"Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
— Alan Moore

No, noone can. Unless you're suggesting a second company build an entirely seperate infrastructure in order to compete with them, which is one of the biggest waste of resources I can imagine as now you have one completely superfluous fiber network that will never be used.

Social change by removal of choice. Typical move. Give them only the choices that you want them to have.

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

Do you think that building a second fiber network that ensures either one will not be used, or both will be used at an average 50% capacity each, is a good idea?

Many companies overbuild each other. In the case of some, they "rent" time on fiber backbones, satellites and HFC architecture. And oddly enough, they do this without the goverment telling them that they need to "play nice" with each other.

I always equate more gov regulation with the Everquest play nice policy. On Mith Marr, that policy was supposed to even things out for the smaller guilds, but instead it was used as a weapon by the guilds who had already conquered the content. Same with these regulations. The idea (which I feel is a false premise to begin with) is to give people a shot to hear each side of the story. Instead it will be used as a bludegon against station owners to carry content that wouldn't be carried normally because it isn't what people want to hear. Or at the very least, not what people who listen to say AM talk raido wanto to hear.

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

This is hardly an FCC problem as much as it is "size and scope" of the executive branch problem. I think we need an FCC to administer the very limited resource of the broadcast spectrum. I don't think whoever has the biggest tower should win. However once they've given out their resources they should keep their noses out of it.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"