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Of all then agencies being compelled to abandon their reason for existence, the FCC joining the herd is troubling yet all I can do is shrug. The “efficiency by

Of all then agencies being compelled to abandon their reason for existence, the FCC joining the herd is troubling yet all I can do is shrug. The “efficiency by contrition” approach is completely contrary to the mandates given by the public at large for decades - and claiming this Administration’s actions reflect a genuine authorization is a blatant lie. A vast percentage of the US population are effectively told simple majority rule is the justification to dismantle functioning, worthwhile elements of the Federal Government, and that’s in many respects - the FCC will be a fascinating case study. Let’s deregulate broadcast television so that supporters of this administration have even less recourse for policing morality on the airwaves. Let’s take away criminal punishments for high jacking AM or FM terrestrial radio broadcasts. Let’s see how they like it when their beloved Conservative Talk show radio programs are forcibly interrupted by Muslim calls to prayer six times per day. Some people just are so emotionally and intellectually deprived that facing the consequences of their actions, en masse, might be divine justice so to speak.

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lesuorac 2y ago
I'm actually really interested in the end-game. My general experience is that people who've actual self-built an empire (ex. Bezos) are actually very aware of history + cause and effect. While the guy that needs to work overtime to afford groceries and gas is more likely to claim the government needs to get out of their medicaid. So, Bezos et al should be extremely aware that the great depression was followed by a massive expansion of government under FDR. Even under Biden there are a lot of claims of a recesssion and the under Trump the USG is trying to cut exports (~11% of GDP) and USG spending (~25% of GDP). Like how are they not going to trigger a depression when going after 30% of the economy? Do they figure they have the government all locked up?
- dwallin 2y ago
  There are a couple of things that human’s in general are bad at, and intuition is unhelpful, even if you are otherwise an intelligent, learned person. Two I see pop up a lot are Statistics and Systems Thinking. In particular with Systems Thinking, people tend to assume that things that have a simple clear relationship at the scale they operate in, will have the same effect when applied at the scale of the system as a whole. Which is quite often not the case.
- staticman2 2y ago
  People can't predict in advance who will win a U.S. Preidential election with any accuracy but you are presuming people like Bezos are working from a long term master plan? He's probably improvising like everyone else.
Spivak 2y ago
> have even less recourse for policing morality on the airwaves Of all the things isn't this helped by gutting the FCC? I wouldn't exactly call their policing of broadcast radio and television popular. To be clear I don't like any of this but trying to see a teeeny silver lining where network TV can be less bland. It's something (tm) I guess. A lot of the damage might be mitigated by the fact that companies aren't going to roll out non-compliant devices if they expect in 4 years for this to all have been a bad dream. But if this flavor of Republican wins in '28 then I bet it sticks.

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lesuorac 2y ago

I'm actually really interested in the end-game. My general experience is that people who've actual self-built an empire (ex. Bezos) are actually very aware of history + cause and effect. While the guy that needs to work overtime to afford groceries and gas is more likely to claim the government needs to get out of their medicaid. So, Bezos et al should be extremely aware that the great depression was followed by a massive expansion of government under FDR. Even under Biden there are a lot of claims of a recesssion and the under Trump the USG is trying to cut exports (~11% of GDP) and USG spending (~25% of GDP). Like how are they not going to trigger a depression when going after 30% of the economy? Do they figure they have the government all locked up?

dwallin 2y ago
There are a couple of things that human’s in general are bad at, and intuition is unhelpful, even if you are otherwise an intelligent, learned person. Two I see pop up a lot are Statistics and Systems Thinking. In particular with Systems Thinking, people tend to assume that things that have a simple clear relationship at the scale they operate in, will have the same effect when applied at the scale of the system as a whole. Which is quite often not the case.
staticman2 2y ago
People can't predict in advance who will win a U.S. Preidential election with any accuracy but you are presuming people like Bezos are working from a long term master plan? He's probably improvising like everyone else.

Spivak 2y ago

> have even less recourse for policing morality on the airwaves Of all the things isn't this helped by gutting the FCC? I wouldn't exactly call their policing of broadcast radio and television popular. To be clear I don't like any of this but trying to see a teeeny silver lining where network TV can be less bland. It's something (tm) I guess. A lot of the damage might be mitigated by the fact that companies aren't going to roll out non-compliant devices if they expect in 4 years for this to all have been a bad dream. But if this flavor of Republican wins in '28 then I bet it sticks.