techcrunch.com— The FCC may move to open up access to cable television on the basis that the big cable companies are too dominant, according to the NY Times.
Nov 10, 2007View in Crawl 4
By what right can they force a company to do anything? The company has a product that you can either choose to consume or not. That's it. You have no right to cable. If this were your company being forced, you'd see it differently.Basically you are saying "what I want should trump what mr. cable guy wants...". By what right?
*Laissez-faire* is the epitome of free market. The only way you "protect" a free market is stay out of it. Anti-trust laws are undefinable, unenforceable and accomplish nothing but destruction.
The answer is what you alluded to above... get GovCo. out all together, don't just add yet another crippling bandaid that sets even more precedent for further encroachment of property rights.
Or not! It also may just make the "infomercial" problem worse!It is far more important to level the playing field! My local cable system offers local stations from both Washington, DC, and Richmond, VA. DirecTV, on the other hand, is allowed one or the other, but not both, and has, for reasons that should be obvious, chosen to offer DC. I would have done the same thing, but I still think they should play by the same rules as the cable system, and at least be allowed to negotiate with the individual stations in that situation!
icekoldNov 11, 2007
Rules are being drawn up as we speak that would ban these exclusivity deals.
humpingmonkeyNov 11, 2007
By what right can they force a company to do anything? The company has a product that you can either choose to consume or not. That's it. You have no right to cable. If this were your company being forced, you'd see it differently.Basically you are saying "what I want should trump what mr. cable guy wants...". By what right?
humpingmonkeyNov 12, 2007
*Laissez-faire* is the epitome of free market. The only way you "protect" a free market is stay out of it. Anti-trust laws are undefinable, unenforceable and accomplish nothing but destruction.
alanjvNov 12, 2007
I don't know. It's the FCC, so I feel like we're going to screwed somehow, no matter what happens.
jaewon223Nov 12, 2007
idiot, never... stop... fighting (the good fight)
humpingmonkeyNov 12, 2007
The answer is what you alluded to above... get GovCo. out all together, don't just add yet another crippling bandaid that sets even more precedent for further encroachment of property rights.
philbaNov 12, 2007
this will happen when pigs fly out of my butt.
gkiltzNov 12, 2007
Or not! It also may just make the "infomercial" problem worse!It is far more important to level the playing field! My local cable system offers local stations from both Washington, DC, and Richmond, VA. DirecTV, on the other hand, is allowed one or the other, but not both, and has, for reasons that should be obvious, chosen to offer DC. I would have done the same thing, but I still think they should play by the same rules as the cable system, and at least be allowed to negotiate with the individual stations in that situation!