Dear Federal Communications Commission: as a national authority on use of broadcast and cable media, you are charged with regulating use of public property by private, for profit and non-profit entities. I strongly advocate prohibiting telecom companies (who now control phones, TV, radio and internet resources) from further infringing upon free speech by attempting to shape internet traffic to suit their business goals. Cable providers already enjoy the status of regulated monopoly within geographical regions and do not hesitate to use that advantage to interfere with competition from smaller, local carriers who could potentially offer superior services and pricing. I do not personally care whom those infringements benefit but am reasonably confident that they will benefit people who are already very wealthy and politically powerful, and whose prior conduct only indicates to me that they are interested in maintaining a status quo where the wealthy have a disproportionate access to public airwaves and help to keep the costs of political candidate and issue campaigns SO EXPENSIVE that our system has effectively ceased to represent the middle class. I also must insist that the FCCs failure to enforce its existing charter, amounts to a tacit support of these media conglomerates and the political representatives whom they appear to own. I stand in unwavering support of net neutrality measures and advocate large financial and legal penalties for those corporations or individuals who can be shown to intentionally use my private information for their own use without my permission (including selling that information to other entities and handling such information without adequate safeguards to keep it from falling into the wrong hands). I generally advocate more-stringent legal standards for privacy protection similar to those already in force in the EC and frankly wonder why the USA has failed to do likewise. As a side note, I have repeatedly advocated that the FCC should vastly increase the broadcast licensing fees for major media conglomerates who have effectively cornered the market on radio, TV and cable services (and continue to intrude on the internet as well, as though any of that firmament were legally their property nor their right) and REQUIRE that the terms of such licenses stipulate a legal minimum of public access PRIME TIME WITHOUT CHARGE for legitimate political candidacy and issue campaigns. To fail to carry this out, permits big money to totally control access to the media, and totally pervert the republican/democratic system, since access to the media currently is only available to very wealthy candidates or campaigns. Tracy Avent-Costanza Los Gatos California
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 14:35:42 +0000
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