VIDEO: McCain's Concentration of Power Flip-Flop
McCain adviser Doug Holtz-Eakin lays out McCain's position on telcom power
Friday October 30, 2009 5:57 p.m.
Photo Credit: Associated Press
McCain 2008 adviser Doug Holtz-Eakin once said that John McCain opposed "concentrations of power" in communications. But McCain's new Internet "Freedom" Act prevents the FCC from cracking down on providers who want to block or slow access to certain kind of internet activity. Sounds pretty concentrated to us...
Watch the video here.
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It's Just a (Telecom) Pay-Back Favor for Large Donations that McCain Received. If this Passes, it will be Like Permanent (Parental Controls) on Many Websites, and Having to Pay for Many Websites. It Could also Cause the (Slowing-Down) of Trying to (Access )Websites that are in Competition with another Industry.
McCain is using Trickery, where People Will Not Know that they Are Voting Against the Best Interest for Themselves! Look how Students will be Affected, and Many People who Use the Internet for Business Purposes too, not just for Entertainment. I Hope this is Stopped!
Diana
Unfortunately most of the voting public is either oblivious or just plain ignorant. Too many people vote against their own best interest because of one hot button issue or another. Most of the time it is an issue that is minor in relative terms to the whole of the nation. For example, how many votes have been won or lost over the gay rights debate? Something that really effects no ones day to day life (except of course for those in the GLBT community) and yet they get so worked up over it that they vote for someone who will deny those rights but will not stand up for the things that really matter in the lives of their constituents.
mcmugged, your last line says it all. Most people aren't paying attention. Too many are so jaded and indifferent to politics and government in general that politicians just don't really have to try too hard to cover their complicity with corp. interests.
popefittergal, more people need to become familiar with Santa Clara co. vs SPRR.
With our politicians it's "fooling the people all the time" "if possible" . In Washington flim flam is the modus operandi .
We need to get Santa Clara County vs Southern Pacific RR overturned!!! (That's the SCOTUS ruling that gave "personhood" status to corporations.)
It is amazing the lengths to which politicians will go to justify taking positions that are in direct conflict with the good of "real" people versus the good of "artificial" people aka corporations. People like McCain twist so far around that their heads are up their arses several times over.
I find it outrageous that our representatives are so bold that they will just speak out in favor of corporations over the people who elected them, knowing that most of the people aren't really paying that close attention.
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