Posted on 06/26/2017 4:26:03 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
Officials with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) blasted The Washington Post Friday over a story alleging that the FCC’s Chairman Ajit Pai is getting too cozy with the White House.
Pai’s chief of staff, Matthew Berry, said in a tweet that WaPo reporter Brian Fung invented a fake meeting between President Donald Trump and Chairman Pai.
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Wow. Don’t they get tired of printing fake news? Don’t they have any shame?
WAR on FAKE NEWS!!!! ABout damn time!
I guess we add this one to our FAKE NEWS list...
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Fake meeting ???
They wouldn’t dooo thaaat!
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Great. I love it when Trump’s Administration goes on the offensive against media lies.
Amen to that!!! First CNN now the Washington Post!!! Keep it coming, don’t stop now!!!
No & No
WHEN are we going to get LYING Gay Boy Shep Smith???
I don’t know, I don’t have FNC on my t.v. so what’s he been up to now???
It’s what he NORMALLY is.... A LIAR!!!
The Constitution gives the feds no authority to interfere with "communications." The Commerce Clause's limited intent is for the feds to remove hindrances to interstate commerce, not commander all "communications" in our country.
Well, airways are a finite resource. If left totally unregulated, we may not be very happy with the results...mostly likely resulting in totally unusable frequencies, due to everyone stepping on everyone else.
But the FCC has to TOTALLY get out of the policing business regarding speech. They should only be involved in divvying up the airways and that is it.
This is why they are going out of business ... nobody takes them seriously now. The only thing that keeps them alive is all the advertising in the Sunday compost, and the advertisers are waking up to the scam.
Even if the story was true, why is it a problem if the FCC chairman is meeting Trump? Doesn’t he work for Trump? They keep acting as if Trump is some malevolent outside force that shouldn’t be interacting with the USG.
Brian Fung was just making up fung. Fung fake meeting.
If I were a Dad to one or a couple of young kids, I’d probably rather have them discuss at the meal table with even their mother present about what they read in Penthouse or Hustler as opposed to what they read in the Washington Post.
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Even if the story was true, why is it a problem if the FCC chairman is meeting Trump? Doesn’t he work for Trump? They keep acting as if Trump is some malevolent outside force that shouldn’t be interacting with the USG.
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Well, I for one HOPE he’s a outside, malevolent force...that rips 99% of Fedzilla by the roots and takes it to its knees.
One can hope, no?
Scary enough I had to read one here, defending the FCC *smh*
Let’s look to what the govt wants to do to w/ the internet. The same as they’ve done w/ the FCC (IE: *CONTROL*). Luckily, that genie isn’t going back and, I’d bet $$ to do-nuts, they’d have a damn quick ‘Revolution III’ should they decide to attempt it; even if for the good of the Public, of course.
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Well, airways are a finite resource. If left totally unregulated, we may not be very happy with the results...mostly likely resulting in totally unusable frequencies, due to everyone stepping on everyone else.
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‘Finite’ is only a limit of existing technology/science. Let’s take radio for example: What required a broad spectrum at the dawn of radio can now be broadcast to the nearest .1 on the FM dial. What’s that today...88.x to 107.x?? That’s quite a bit of broadcasting going on.
Airways are also limited by geography and distance. Energy needed to drive signals further and further out; you’re ‘stepping on toes’ would most likely occur at the *fringes*/overlaps of each range, not where a signal is stronger\est.
That ‘quite a bit’, from above, is multiplied over NUMEROUS geographical locations, utilizing the SAME frequencies for its region...it’s not ‘D.C. can ONLY have 101.1, and nobody else can use it’. And biz would be stupid to create the conflicts by setting up the SAME freq. so close together; whereas alternating frequencies would cause no issue (City A @ 100FM, City B @ 105FM, City C @ 100FM)
Just as the Free Market today works w/ WiFi in your ‘hood. EVERYONE doesn’t use the same channel (freq). And those on the other end of the block aren’t interfering w/ your end (distance/geography). That didn’t require FCC or govt intervention to figure out.
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But the FCC has to TOTALLY get out of the policing business regarding speech. They should only be involved in divvying up the airways and that is it.
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R-I-G-H-T. Because no govt agency/dept/etc. has grown beyond its charter/scope and all have stayed within the budget confines from their inception. (SEE: Fed Reserve, EPA, NSA).
Govt lives to grow GOVT, not Freedom, not choice and NEVER freely\cheaply.
The ONLY way to get the FCC out of policing is to abolish it absolutely.
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