[CLUE-Talk] FCC Orders Broadcast Flag in TVs by 2005

Tue Nov 4 20:54:03 MST 2003

Read it and weep.

http://politechbot.com/pipermail/politech/2003-November/000168.html

You might recall that when this came up in Congress, via the CBDTPA (early
2002), it was killed by Sen. Leahy of the Judiciary Committee.

Must be nice to be the FCC, and not have to worry about things like, oh,
consent of the governed.

jed
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