ipaction.org — Senator Ted Stevens slipped the Broadcast Flag into a net neutrality bill introduced in the Senate today. There are lots of things going on in this bill, it's 135 pages, but any bill that enables the FCC to implement the Broadcast Flag must be stopped.
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hypersapienMay 2, 2006
Why the hell is any member of congress allowed to slip anything they want into a bill, but congress can't remove things from the bills they vote on?
jwalk81980May 2, 2006
The President used to have the authority to line-item veto individual stupid ideas (earmarks) thrown into bills, like the one Stevens is proposing, without vetoing the entire bill. Clinton used it 82 times before the Supreme Court found line-item vetoes unconstitutional in '98. Even if we brought it back, it's not like it would get used. Bush is the only President to never have vetoed anything in his first term, and still to this day has never vetoed any bill that came across his desk.
blahblahMay 3, 2006
Hmm, just like Fox News is only "slightly right-leaning" and CNN is "liberal," I bet.
ben_0081May 3, 2006
Damn Stevens keeps raping the reputation of Alaskans.
ke5crzMay 3, 2006
Dose it help when the other two guys are idiots as well?
tony23May 5, 2006
So, lets get this right:I haven't heard about this group, I see what appears to be a blog, and it doesn't explain ANYWHERE what they're talking about.So I point that out, and that's a bad thing?What the hell is a broadcast flag? If you're discussing it, you would think you'd want people to know what it is!
Closed AccountMay 4, 2007
Man.... the RIAA is really starting to piss me off. Can't you just leave us alone. If you try to restrict something from us, we're only going to figure a way around it.