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Sununu Wants to Squelch FCC Flag Raising (InternetNews.com)Sununu Wants to Squelch FCC Flag Raising (InternetNews.com)Posted Jan 10, 2007 2:50 UTC (Wed) by dfsmith (guest, #20302)Parent article: Sununu Wants to Squelch FCC Flag Raising (InternetNews.com)
...the FCC has no business interfering in private industry to satisfy select special interests or to impose its own views
I thought the FCC was created for exactly that purpose. E.g., reserving frequency bands, issuing rules for ex-government monopolies, etc..
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Sununu Wants to Squelch FCC Flag Raising (InternetNews.com) Posted Jan 10, 2007 8:02 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link] WEll it would be nice to see a lot less of the FCC.
Or actually I think that we probably would be better off without it. I am sure that it's doing some very good things, but is that greater then the damage it causes?
Who knows, maybe don't get rid of it. Throwing the baby out with the bath water, I guess. But right now it's probably safe to say that it's doing more bad then good.
Then moving on to the DMCA that would be nice to get rid of that also.`
Sununu Wants to Squelch FCC Flag Raising (InternetNews.com) Posted Jan 11, 2007 17:18 UTC (Thu) by malor (subscriber, #2973) [Link] FCC was intended to allocate and safeguard the airwaves, which are considered a public trust.
Mandating the imposition of copyright controls would appear to be entirely out of their purview.
Sununu Wants to Squelch FCC Flag Raising (InternetNews.com) Posted Jan 13, 2007 1:10 UTC (Sat) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link] Yes, Sununu's view, as he states it, is entirely consistent with the FCC's, so his legislation shouldn't be necessary. The FCC believes the FCC's own views and those of special interests are irrelevant to its decisions. It has always said that the broadcast flag was intended to advance the public interest, just like when the FCC has required TVs to include UHF tuners. There's plenty of debate on what the public interest is and what effect particular regulation has on it, but that's a different matter. The courts have already said that the broadcast flag is outside the FCC's jurisdiction (because it doesn't have to do with facilitating transmissions). That's why we don't have it today. So no leglislation is required for that either. Sununu doesn't even claim to be stripping the FCC of policy power; just the power to dictate implementation. While I'm a great believer in Smithian free-market policymaking, I have a hard time seeing that system producing a decent transmission protocol.
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