Roachboy,
I don't understand why an objection to FCC content restrictions is necessarily an endorsement of privatization/ownership concentration of the broadcast industry. Isn't it possible for left-of-center folks to hold the first position without also holding the latter?
__________________
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
|