> Pai is also expected to call for an initial vote in December to rescind rules that say one company may not own stations serving more than 39 percent of U.S. television households, two people briefed on the matter said.
Despair seems like an appropriate response here, but hardly useful. This is probably as bad for society as any of the changes to the net neutrality laws.
Getting out into the streets, blacking out websites, commenting on the FCC site... those things are just meaningless it seems and weren't even a response to these last two pieces.
How in the hell is monopoly ownership of the press still considered a free press? Shouldn't this constitutionally protected industry have its own set of anti-trust laws? In the Information Age, how can we be so careless about the management and structure of our core information distribution systems?
Are there any movements to combat this and prevent more local papers and tv stations from becoming smaller delivery mechanisms for the same partisan bullshit?