[opendtv] Re: TV Technology: FCC Challenges Court's Broadcast Dereg Smackdown
- From: "Craig Birkmaier" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "brewmastercraig" for DMARC)
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2019 08:00:52 -0500
On Nov 7, 2019, at 11:09 PM, Manfredi (US), Albert E
<albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
IMO, the FCC deserves this sort of pushback. In spades.
As true as it might be, that there are plenty of Internet-based alternatives
for news and POV sources, the FCC is clearly always stacking the deck in
favor of the special interests. So for example, the Internet-based
alternatives, plenty as they might be, CANNOT BE RELIED UPON, if the FCC
unabashedly allows ISPs to block whatever sites they please. And states this
explicitly.
But the FCC IS NOT allowing ISP to block anything Bert. Please give up this
absurd line of attack on the FCC.
It keeps coming back to that. "The digital age" they keep talking about is
only as good as a scrupulously neutral telecom service.
???????? The digital age has been infected with massive abuses of “neutrality”
enabled in large part by the immunity given to today’s new Internet Monopolies
by Congress, to protect them from liability for their blocking and shadow
banning of perfectly legal points of view. ISPs are not the problem; worse
case they can use traditional marketing/bundling techniques to promote their
services.
By the way, the marketplace still works. AT&T just raised the price of my AT&T
TV Now VMVPD service to $60/month. That places it at the about the same price
as the latest Cox MVPD bundle (for the first year). AT&T does not count the
bits I use to view AT&T TV Now against our cellular data plan. But that benefit
is now meaningless given the ever increasing price of the VMVPD bundle. And
AT&T continues to increase the size of the data cap on our cellular bundle, so
we have a major surplus of bits each month that can be used to access
alternative VMVPD bundles,
For now, the best deal for live TV is Hulu Live, at about $45/month. And it
includes all of VOD content offered by Hulu, which AT&T TV Now does not include.
This is called COMPETITION Bert. And it is far more effective in policing the
marketplace, than a n obsolete Federal Agency (the FCC) that should be shut
down.
"UPDATE: The NAB is joining the FCC in filing a petition seeking a full court
hearing from the third circuit. The NAB had backed the FCC's deregulatory
efforts, and says that the three-judge panel was wrong to reject the
commission's proposed rules."
Yes, but that's hardly an endorsement for the FCC position. It's only an
indication that the FCC is in bed with the special interests. You can't only
and consistently regulate in favor of the special interests, without
appearing to be utterly corrupt.
No Bert. The NAB and the FCC are on the same page here. There is no legitimate
reason to enforce last century regulations on dying industries. Your beloved
broadcast TV service is now an unnecessary dinosaur, along with the newspapers
that they competed with in the last century.
Simply stated, what the Appeals court just told these industries is that the
mating of dinosaurs is illegal.
Regards
Craig
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