FCC Commissioner Michael Copps on Pearl Jam Censorship

[geitepung]

Disgusting little parrot. That's right, talk like the fucking politician rat you are, lash out a sea of words without saying one fucking thing, you're all the fucking same, you new age fucking Nazis.

[Martintfre]

what is worse? a single point of political government control or multiple choices.

What is it about "Congress shal make no law..." that these tards don't get?

What governing philosophy wants total control of communications and transportation? Hint ..starts with a C and ends with omunism.

[briggiano]

In 2008, 23.65% of China's exports were to the USA.Making the USA there best customer Running USA trade deficit of $266.3billion with China alone.China is also the largest foreign holder of US treasury securities.They have the strongest growing economy and last time i checked China was a communist country. So we are the ones that let unregulated corporations slowly take control of the government and us. And we continue to feed China. We cannot even buy MADE IN THE USA if we wanted to.

[farmeadow]

Still believe you live in the country of the free and the brave.Your not a free country anymore so there aren't probably any brave to.

wake up,Yankees your country is beeing sold out to tha NAU.

They already own you or else they could'nt have taken away your most important right namely FREEDOM OF SPEECH. good luck U.S.A

[FattKidd]

How about pulling their FCC licenses or revoking their corporate charter? There's plenty that can be done. What's lacking is the will of those in put in charge to represent US, the consumers.

[peacelf]

Fatt, there hasn't been a corporate charter pulled since nobody knows when. The political will no longer exists because the corporations own the politicans; in other words, the police work for the criminals.

[magnetmixerhands]

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[HomelandConspiracy]

And what is he going to do about it? NOTHING!!!

[SECRETofLIFEstaYoung]

let's abolish the needless FCC after we destroy the FRS and the MIC.

[V2impeach]

NATIONAL IMPEACHMENT DAY is this TUESDAY AUGUST 21st! Spread the word and search 'V2IMPEACH' on YOUTUBE now!!

[eddiedaskull]

lets buy bush a hooker since the only way to get impeached is to enjoy a blowjob by someone other then your wife.I guess being a mass murderer and wasting the national bank account is not enough for impeachment.You have to do something really sinful like getting a blowjob

[gondor124]

yes perhaps we could look a little more deeply into the bald hooker Jeff Gannon aka Gukert and his sleepovers at the White house and *'s weird fetish for bald heads.

[stophateing]

what do you mean national bank account youre national bank belongs to the jews not u s citizens

[maceoeric]

These people are communists. We need to abolish the FCC. Let the free market work the way it is supposed to work, without the heavy handed government interference.

[peacelf]

mac, how can you use the word "free" in describing the market, when you just heard a report that AT&T cut out a segment of Pearl Jams' video that made an anti0Bush statement? HOW FREE IS THAT?

[nexalacer]

The free market would have never given AT&T their control over cable/network franchises. The current situation is a result of government interference, thus we should ask for MORE interference to fix the problem!

[peacelf]

Excuse me, you're blaming the government for allowing ATT to censure a video? Look at the history of corporate power. Yes, politicians are in the pockets of corporations and their wealthy owners, but it was corporations who pushed that agenda. If anything, it's the people who allow it to go on that should be blamed, but free marketeers believe in the good ness of corporations, that the market will somehow correct everything.

[nexalacer]

I am not blaming government for allowing ATT to censor, I'm blaming them for giving us a limited number of options for our internet service. You're right, it is the people that allowed it, but the solution is not for more government interference, we, the people, need to require open access to OUR lines.

[nexalacer]

Furthermore, I don't live in a fantasy world that requires the goodness of corporations. I do, however, live in a world where when people have choices between a company that censors and one that doesn't, they will chose to do business with the one that doesn't. The free market is not about the goodness of corporations, its about the decision-making-abilities of the people who keep corporations in business, the consumers.

[peacelf]

nex, Again, I don't think people will chose a different company, especially when it comes to untilities, like ATT. Moreover, how many people are aware that AT&T censored the Pearl Jam video. How many won't think to question that censorship. Then, I ask you, how many [politicians who are aware of the censorship will react, speak out, challenge the telecommunications giant? Not many, since AT&T are huge campaign donors.

[nexalacer]

People would chose different companies if things like this mattered to them. There are a number of scenarios that would allow people to be informed, including private companies such as Consumer Reports letting the public know, or companies with civic-minded leaders (rare I know, but they do exist) who would use this information in advertising campaigns against their censoring competition.

[peacelf]

cont. 2, In my perefect world, our educational system would be utilized for educating young people to be critical citizens, rather than mindless workers/employees. I have spent the past 20 years pushing a different educational system that would do that. However, politicans who know nothing about educ pushe dthe no child left behind act, which dumbs down ed. (see my vid on NCLB)

[peacelf]

Cont 3, in that educational model, I would agree on free markets, as long as corporations lose their excessive superpowers and rights.  They deserve no rights, except to produce a product or service at a profit. But, they should not be able to own land or outlive their usefulness. And, a corporate charter should be evoked at the first sign of impropriety.

[nexalacer]

Check your premise, you're thinking of utilities as a separate market, which leads you to overlook real market effects on it... forces that currently don't apply because of it's relationship with government. And I'm with you, I don't trust any politicians to challenge the status quo... that's why I want them out of it completely.

[peacelf]

cont. I trust several politicians to challenge the big money campaigns, however, the power of the media prevents people like Kucinich, Ron Paul, and Gravel from getting noticed. Look at the Dems Iowa debate. Kucincich waited 50 mins before being called on to answer a question. The media has control over who's elected.

[peacelf]

It was the telecommunications corporations who wrote the laws passed during the Clinton admins in 1996. Why don't we privatize government. Oh, I forgot, it already is. My solution is making campaigns publicly financed, no more hard or soft money,period. Arizona and Maine have done it with great success.

[nexalacer]

Check your premise. I am for a smaller government where the corporations wouldn't have their hands in everything, because the government wouldn't be involved in everything. However, that's a far off goal, and in the mean time, I'm with you again, if there IS big money in government, publicly financed campaigns are a good idea. Although I am morally offended by the idea of MY tax dollars supporting my OPPONENT. However, we must make small steps and this is a place where I can compromise.

[peacelf]

nex, publicly financed campaigns are not taxpayer funded. in Arizona, the money comes from a donation box on the tax form, like you have for federal gov. Each candidate must collect X amount of signatures, plus a $5 donation with each signature. Now, I would expand the campaign fund to include free air time from FCC licencees, in other words, the local and national media outlets.

[peacelf]

nex, I appreciate your honesty, and yes we can agree on many things. However, the path to getting there is a long and wily one, with big money poolitics fighting all the way. Like Hitler, who slowly eased power away from the people, so did corporations, and I am a little troubled when people look at social services critically but ignore the greatest benefactors of the public dole: corporations!

[parispeter2]

YT is doing its own political censoring of users with "awkward" political opinions like anticonsumer and cybertariat. Type in "anticonsumer" to find out more...

[kbrummell]

Check out my interview with ATLANTIC Records artist "QUAN". He speaks on Al Sharpton's quest to censor Hip-hop lyrics.

"HOT OFF THE PRESS" seen via youtube videos

[lighthammar]

Cheney/Bush's lobbyists (at&t) censored this????

freedom of speech???

how many more freedoms/constitutions must be sacrificed before Americans care?

What does democracy actually mean?

[juice797]

It's about a choice of who regulates the internet. If the government regulates the internet (net "neutrality") and you don't like it, you're SCREWED. If you don't like how your ISP regulates the internet, just change ISPs. Very simple.

[COAnews]

this is so stupid - there is basically 2-3 companies that control the ISP market and all want to controll the Internet this way. Also as we have seen with AT&T even if one censors something it is very powerful. It is about Citizens regulating the Internet or Big Business. I choose citizens.

[eddiedaskull]

yeah they are all bunch of cimminals and liers

[juice797]

I'm not falling for it. Net neutrality = censorship. The only question is whether or not the commissioner believes his own BS.