Looks like its based in an attempt to eliminate the foundations of our telecom policy in public franchise law and tort law for common carriers in relation to the right of way, an attempt to elide the way we actually developed and grounded our telecom policy. One of the most important things to say about this, to lay in prior to the discussion getting further along, is to observe that if we dont keep clearly in mind that the Communications Act is already designed to evade federal corporate machinations through its basis in these traditions, well just be led by the noses -- on both sides of the political spectrum -- to get an outcome thats only a useful tool for the oligarchic interests who have captured our political channels. This will be done through the usual debate at the level of federal policy, using the standard regulation vs competition frame -- which is uniquely unsuited to telecom policy, taken in the reductive form were now well-accustomed to -- and this will enable easy management of the left-right divide discourse while barring recognition that we already solved this problem. Getting back, rather than getting played, in this arena would be a most definitive way to start regaining our political order, as 1) that would stand as a historical rebuke of the game, not just another phase in an ongoing drama we have not been able to regain control over; and 2) it would be based in a key critique of the reductive frame, establishing a real counterpoint that would be a starting element in the definition of a new stage whereon we can start having discussions of policy in far more well-rounded terms, rather than in reductive and polarized terms that only allow us to be manipulated. (What a mouthful of messy rough draft verbiage -- but Ill post for now and work on clarification going forward)
Posted on: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 20:50:15 +0000
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