Nuclear Internet Option
By laglen
@laglen (19759)
United States
November 19, 2010 8:08am CST
Here we go kids. The web censorship bill (Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act or COICA)just flew through committee in the Senate.
This gives the Attorney General the ability to shut down websites for infringement of copyright. Whats next? Dare to ponder.
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/11/coica-web-censorship-bill/
1 response
@TTCCWW (579)
• United States
19 Nov 10
The government had nothing to do with Fox news, that was a dispute about money and Fox blackmailing your service provider.
Most PBS stations get less then two percent of their funds from the government. Please don't pound on them they are the last broadcast news source in America.
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@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
19 Nov 10
The 2% myth is commonly circulation but a report shows that NPR gets 25% of its funding from the government. PBS and NPR both get money from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. It may be that the PBS stations get less than NPR does, or that individual stations get less than 25% but as a whole, the corporation gets much more than 2%. But even if it were a tenth of a percent, it is still the government funding media and the media should not be funded by the government or subject to governmental influence or control.
@hofferp (4734)
• United States
19 Nov 10
I'm with Rollo1.
And I don't want my tax dollars funding "broadcast news", if you can call it that. If I don't like a certain news channel, I switch channels. And I let viewership, or lack of, dictate whether they go off the air...
And I have no clue what your're talking about "Fox blackmailing your service provider"???? I know certain Democrats want it off the air and would like to see "fairness" in the news...like MSNBC and many of the others are "fair".
