With new technology coming in faster than Congress can legislate it, old school media types and Congress continue to shoot themselves in the foot. As soon as Congress decides to restrict access to something, a new technology will come out that allows people to circumvent said restrictions, and the people that wanted the restrictions passed in the first place to protect themselves suddenly lose money. Look at radio, for example. The FCC, because of Congressional legislation, is enforcing indecency fines to $750,000 per incident. Suddenly talk show hosts and and consumers start to move to XM radio, which is unregulated. Old school radio loses listeners. Congress ought to think more than five minutes in the future. If any of them bothered to learn anything about history, they's realize that any time they have restricted something previosuly available to the public, the public found something else that is similar but without the restrictions. To that I say, Go Public!
A Daily Dose of Ben
Sometimes not quite daily!

0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home