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Originally Posted by DJilla
BULLETIN!
I've found out that the official position of the FSC is to be against and fight ANY mandatory tagging standards.
WHY? Because mandatory tags could somewhere down the line allow the blocking of materials at the ISP level. Can you imagine a "Christian" or "Parents Network" ISP company starting up to address this perceived market need based on mandatory tagging?
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...and that would be a bad thing? Why? As long as there is an available ISP in an area that does carry all content, I personally see no problem. That's what a free market is all about.
Second, this is a very bad sign and shows just how out of touch the FSC really is. They are trying to push us into a direction that I don't think anyone of us wants to go and thats with an AVS system.
Finally, let me say that I have lost all faith in the FSC as being someone to help us with this. According to Tom Hymes, he was going to ask for our input before anything went public.
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Originally Posted by DJilla
Initially I was a bit skeptical of this but in the last twenty four hours I've completely changed my mind to be in agreement.
WHY? I know you've all heard on the news today that cable and phone companies are floating the idea of making Google/Yahoo et al pay for access to the subscribers. This is outrageous of course but take the possibilities to their logical conclusion and its not a pretty picture.
Things that make you go Hmmmmm!
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Never going to happen. In fact, if the cable and phone companies push it, it could go just the opposite direction on them.