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We don't all publish TV content. We can see from retransmission fees for over-the-air content to the decimation of business models like Aereo what happens when
by kodablah 8y ago
We don't all publish TV content. We can see from retransmission fees for over-the-air content to the decimation of business models like Aereo what happens when content is governed. I see the Aereo business model as very similar to what's happening w/ article 13 in the EU right now.
But in general I don't think you can compare broadcast mediums to bidirectional ones (e.g. words on the telephone or text on the internet).
- pjc50 8y agoThat's not really driven by the government so much as the media companies.
- cobbzilla 8y agoBig media companies have weaponized the government to serve their interests, it makes sense that social media companies will do the same. They’ll write the rules together, make the barriers to entry even higher, and pat each other on the back. Then it’s on to the next moral panic, this one’s been fixed!
- blotter_paper 8y agoStrongly disagree. The spectrum of transmission is regulated and parcelled out by the government, and it could be used differently. Indeed it is, with whitespace wifi devices. The battle over how many empty adjacent channels should be required for these devices is real, and ongoing. Take away the regulation and TV broadcasters lose. People who have televisions but no working knowledge of computers lose (if spending less time on the TV is a lose). People broadcasting to each other bi-directionally, over longer distances and through thicker obstacles than the current wifi bands allow, win hugely. The media companies are intertwined with the government, sure, but this is fundamentally a government problem.