Re: Bunim/Murray chooses Avid

[TImothy Auld] "Yes, as long as someone - anyone, for any reason - is handing them more green. Anyone without significant funds would be really screwed. Forty years ago our government realized that this could happen and placed real and necessary curbs on radio and TV.

Tim
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And telephones. My bet is the FCC won't be able to stand up to Verizon's (and other related) suits because of the way that the FCC framed the issue. My guess is that a law along the lines of the 1934/96 Telecommunications Act--or even an amendment to that law to include broadband--is required. Such a thing doesn't seem likely, though. Most Americans seem to think that an any attempt to create Net Neutrality/Open Internet laws are part of some sort of plan to protect porn. Taxpayers' dollars built the Internet, and few people have any idea how close we are to its privatization. I'm glad that major corps. like Apple, Netflix, and Google have a lot to lose as well.