Really sums up what's gone wrong with this country over the last 30-40 years. Before then, businesses used to make profits by pleasing their customers. Now, more and more businesses depend on making their profits by jacking their customers. Business ethics have become extinct, especially in the C Suites.
There is a simple solution the Aereo problem. Regulate the cable distribution of over-the-air TV like it used to be regulated. If a station broadcasts in the clear over the public airwaves, you should be able to (and may be required to, under some circumstances) deliver it unaltered over cable (and internet) without payment. Either that, or the FCC should be charging fairly high rent for the use of TV Broadcast channels.
Right. Yet this would be different in that even the legislation itself would be secret. I don't doubt that government can keep secrets. This seems to differ from the TPP. In the case of that agreement, the negotiations are secret, but I thought that the agreement itself would be made public before being rammed through Congress. In this case, Congress would be saying "we hereby agree to certain things which are secret, and give those force of law by our approving them as a treaty." I agree that secret FISA rulings are abhorrent, as are secret legal memos authorizing torture, surveillance, or whatever. This is a new bend down the slippery slope, in my opinion.
"keep it secret not just during the negotiations but for five years after the TISA enters into force."
Any lawyers on here? How can it even be legal or constitutional to pass this agreement into law while keeping it secret? That just seems crazy to me. Can we have secret law in the US? Maybe secret law is allowed in some of the potential signatory countries, but it seems unlikely that it would be in nominally "democratic" ones.
How can it even be possible to contemplate a project like this?
Indeed. Maybe we should concentrate on going back to the old must-carry rules that worked that way and, in my opinion, worked fine for the first 40 years or so of Cable TV.
A shark doesn't eat people because it's evil, a shark eats people because it's a shark. The head of a secret surveillance agency doesn't destroy constitutional liberties because he's evil, he destroys our constitutional liberties because he's leading a secret surveillance agency.
This interview proves it. They're all the same. NSA people believe it's their job to spy, and they're going to do their job with efficiency and enthusiasm. They CANNOT regulate or restrain themselves, we have to put strict mechanisms in place to make sure the law and the Constitution are obeyed, and we must make sure there are sufficient consequences when they are not AT EVERY LEVEL.
We should have an independent National Security Oversight Commission to perform this function, since our corrupt, revolving-door Congress has proven itself incapable of doing it on its own.
THIS is how we will get our civil liberties restored, if we can manage to do so: Big, powerful corporations with lots of money demanding that the Government stop stomping on the Constitution because it's BAD FOR BUSINESS.
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Re: B4$%s making profit
Really sums up what's gone wrong with this country over the last 30-40 years. Before then, businesses used to make profits by pleasing their customers. Now, more and more businesses depend on making their profits by jacking their customers. Business ethics have become extinct, especially in the C Suites.
The Spirit of Hoover lives.
Keep in mind, the FBI Headquarters building is still named after J. Edgar Hoover. That should tell us what we need to know.
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It's not either-or. Like most politicians, he's probably both.
Easy for him to say.
I suppose Jeb Bush has servants to do his online shopping and accountants to do his banking for him.
Bring back Must Carry
There is a simple solution the Aereo problem. Regulate the cable distribution of over-the-air TV like it used to be regulated. If a station broadcasts in the clear over the public airwaves, you should be able to (and may be required to, under some circumstances) deliver it unaltered over cable (and internet) without payment. Either that, or the FCC should be charging fairly high rent for the use of TV Broadcast channels.
Re: Re: Can secret law even be legal?
Right. Yet this would be different in that even the legislation itself would be secret. I don't doubt that government can keep secrets. This seems to differ from the TPP. In the case of that agreement, the negotiations are secret, but I thought that the agreement itself would be made public before being rammed through Congress. In this case, Congress would be saying "we hereby agree to certain things which are secret, and give those force of law by our approving them as a treaty." I agree that secret FISA rulings are abhorrent, as are secret legal memos authorizing torture, surveillance, or whatever.
This is a new bend down the slippery slope, in my opinion.
Can secret law even be legal?
"keep it secret not just during the negotiations but for five years after the TISA enters into force."
Any lawyers on here? How can it even be legal or constitutional to pass this agreement into law while keeping it secret? That just seems crazy to me. Can we have secret law in the US? Maybe secret law is allowed in some of the potential signatory countries, but it seems unlikely that it would be in nominally "democratic" ones.
How can it even be possible to contemplate a project like this?
Re: Why do we have retransmission fees anyway?
Indeed. Maybe we should concentrate on going back to the old must-carry rules that worked that way and, in my opinion, worked fine for the first 40 years or so of Cable TV.
no "Professional Responsibility"
Clearly, there's no "Professional Responsibility" in the current DOJ.
Strong oversight needed
A shark doesn't eat people because it's evil, a shark eats people because it's a shark. The head of a secret surveillance agency doesn't destroy constitutional liberties because he's evil, he destroys our constitutional liberties because he's leading a secret surveillance agency.
This interview proves it. They're all the same. NSA people believe it's their job to spy, and they're going to do their job with efficiency and enthusiasm. They CANNOT regulate or restrain themselves, we have to put strict mechanisms in place to make sure the law and the Constitution are obeyed, and we must make sure there are sufficient consequences when they are not AT EVERY LEVEL.
We should have an independent National Security Oversight Commission to perform this function, since our corrupt, revolving-door Congress has proven itself incapable of doing it on its own.
still shame on MIT
There's still plenty of shame to be shared by MIT in the matter. Small in comparison to DOJ's share, of course, but still significant.
This is how it gets done.
THIS is how we will get our civil liberties restored, if we can manage to do so: Big, powerful corporations with lots of money demanding that the Government stop stomping on the Constitution because it's BAD FOR BUSINESS.