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Old 10-20-2008, 02:59 PM  
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Originally Posted by WhiplashDug View Post
Ok, again, what Laws will McCain impose that will effect net neutrality? Or, conversely, what laws will Obama impose that will effect net neutrality?

Answer should be NONE since laws are written by congress. Appointments to the FCC would only effect their enforcement of EXISTING laws, not create any new ones. If you're a oponent of NET NEUTRALITY you should focus on the US CONGRESS. But a president CAN stop one with a veto.

As for the reference above to Obama and his stance against the 'Fairness Doctrine', I'm not so sure the statement is true. If Obama wins two weeks from tomorrow, and the Dems carry more seats and gain a clear majority in the House and Senate, will Obama VETO a bill that includes the fairness doctrine when it gets to his desk? Pelosi & Reid have already expressed willingness to push the bill through.

Is Obama more likely to veto this bill or is McCain? The RIGHT in America is fearful that the Fairness Doctrine would virtually eliminate conservative talk radio. This would occur since the fairness doctrine would require that stations give equal time to both points of view, and therefor would have to run a liberal program back to back with a conservative program. Their claim is that since there are NO successful liberal talk programs that stations would be forced to drop conservative programs since there is no liberal program they can pair with their conservative counterparts. If this is true, wouldn't McCain be more likely to VETO a bill which contains the fairness doctrine?

How could that be applied to the adult industry? Well it will depend on who is in charge at the time. But what if it was determined that to be fair you have to offer as much ANTI-ADULT content as ADULT content on every one of your sites? Perhaps it's not a big deal, since its rather easy to add the content to the pages side by side. But how much would the guilt based content effect sales?
oh stop please stop.
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