It is my considered opinion as an amateur media historian and a full-time student of the media that the FCC is completely powerless to control or otherwise affect information distribution today. The internet is simply too powerful and widespread for any government entity on Planet Earth to thwart.
It will change the way we live to an extent not seen since Gutenberg. Everything I read and see every day reinforces that prediction.
I agree completely.
I understand the media of the Internet is a double-edged sword, but I will take the risk of figuring out how to grasp that double edged sword by the blade and using it as I see fit, rather than having someone wield a safe sword handle on my behalf and putting my trust in them.
They betrayed my trust long, long ago, beginning with Joseph McCarthy, filling in the middle with Walter Cronkite commenting on The Tet Offensive and culminating with the Bush Presidency and the War in Iraq.