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GAO blasts FCC for anti-consumer bias
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article published on 4 October, 2007
In a report that shouldn't surprise long time Afterdawn visitors, the U.S. General Accounting Office accuses FCC members of a bias toward helping Washington lobbyists. The report states that some at the agency leak details regarding what votes are coming up to industry lobbyists, who then have a chance to stage some sort of campaign to get whatever result they're looking for.
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4. October 2007 @ 05:41 |
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first doesn't matter can someone explain dun understand :(
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Ocean23
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4. October 2007 @ 07:02 |
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A lobbyist is an activist usually paid by an interest group to promote their positions to legislatures. A lobbyist can also work to change public opinion through advertising campaigns or by influencing 'opinion leaders' or pundits, thereby creating a climate for the change his or her employer desires. The word lobbyist comes from the chambers in which the act of lobbying usually takes place, an anteroom near legislative bodies, for instance, or even the lobby of hotels where important people are staying.
So this report that was leaked says that the fcc is giving reports to certain lobbyists, most likely becasue they are gaining something from it, and the report says what votes are coming up and that gives these lobbyists time to go spread their propoganda and pre-pare all their bullshit before the vote comes.
Lobbyists are the ones causing all the the bullshit in the goverment.
These people that have high posistions in goverment are there because they are greedy, so any chance they get to make more money they take it.
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nobrainer
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4. October 2007 @ 08:39 |
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What do ppl actually expect from a nation beset on destroying all socialist ideas using propaganda to make ppl think that only communists and failed nations rely on government control in favour of the capitalist screw over so the 1% ruling class can continue to keep every one in dept having to pay a premium for a service that should be standard.
didn't gw bush say that net neutrality was a bad idea as it would restrict the service to Americans not so long ago, you can see who lines his pockets with gold, and where his vested interests lie!
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?doci...earch&plindex=0
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 4. October 2007 @ 08:41
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edsrouter
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4. October 2007 @ 12:13 |
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I just want to address the subject of corruption. All governments have some sort of corruption communist or capitalist. Capitalism as well as communism is a good idea at its core principle, but at the heart of both subjects is the corruption: Money. In a perfect world I would use the Capitalist model and have some sort of profit cap. I mean, really, what is a company going to do with 100 billion dollars a year in profit besides buy other corporations? How can greed still be a factor in profit margins that high? How are we advancing as a human race when our only goal is greed?
The corruption inside the FCC is amazing. Big media is always trying to monopolize the market and the FCC is the forerunner in this. For more information on the history into this corruption of the FCC go here.
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eLeCTR0n
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4. October 2007 @ 14:01 |
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shame on FCC
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duckNrun
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4. October 2007 @ 15:00 |
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Originally posted by edsrouter:
I mean, really, what is a company going to do with 100 billion dollars a year in profit besides buy other corporations?
well for starters they COULD pay dividends on that profit to their shareholders.....you know those people who have bought stock, invested their retirement funds etc into the company...
Of course these evil greedy corporation b@stards instead could be capped on the profits they make, and therefore the return they provide to these investors, who are not always the rich and famous. Many retirement plans, public and private, relay on these outrageous profits as a way to provide a future income to people when they are too old to work. There's a reason that $10,000 a year invested for 25 years can produce over 1 MILLION dollars in a portfolio as opposed to the 'paltry' $250,000 that would be acrued without the return rate produced by these greedy profit mongers.
just a thought.
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4. October 2007 @ 20:39 |
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Regulation bought by lobbyists who would thought!
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AfterDawn Addict
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10. October 2007 @ 21:42 |
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Good to see them fighting among themselves.
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nobrainer
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11. October 2007 @ 07:32 |
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Originally posted by borhan9:
Good to see them fighting among themselves.
fighting to screw us over!
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Cableproblems
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18. November 2011 @ 08:12 |
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Yes, I need to voice my concerns over a private landlord who won't let us disabled low-income tenants have our freedom of coice about using the cheaper TV cable providers..I nedd the FCC phone number to call and start my complaint..
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