Canwest and CTV's want the public's support

I was thinking of posting the same thing while watching colbert on the comedy network. They are crying about the cable companies and satalite. Aren't they part of that, you know bell owns CTV and is a sat provider in addition most of the channels on cable/sat are owned by CTV. No sympathy here. What have they done to enrich culture or strengthen Canada? Or rather when was the last time they were not actively destroying it. They are buying US tv shows and want to complain about local programming. Just stunning.

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Richard Stallman<[email protected]>

   Have you heard of the
   PI Institute?

No.  Send me a writeup if yo wish.

   I write this  now for consideration and then ask, you if there is such
   a thing as to design the hardware under "this idea of yours" to
   advance the internet as a free access, instead of the piggy back that
   we can do from libraries and such.

The main useful step here, I think, is to set up free municipal
wireless networks.  This has no real overlap with what I do, and I
don't have time to get involved in it myself, but I am willing to say
publicly that it is a good thing.

I wrote the letter above in a follow up. The italizied wording is mine.

White Space Public Domain? If the internet is controlled, who shall be speaking "as free journalists" if all forms of media are controlled by the big three? Eventually by one. Analog television transmission has now become digital. Space was freed up. That space was auctioned off.

Throttling is a charge that should be thought about in terms of control. Whose control? A hierarchy structure of cost,  to allow you access to information with regard to a certain speed? What is the ultimate goal but to have transmission of movies and news over the internet?

Just some thoughts to consider as I myself am in a bit of quandry as to the agenda and whether to become a supporter.  The reasons, just laid out. I knew this process was taking place and thought about the "idea of information" and how we have the right to know what's happening in the world without becoming pawns of "an ideological plan" to convert society. Access to education.

Best,

See also:Larry Page in Support of White Space

Faster speeds mean better viewing and quality of picture. So I am thinkng about the future when Canada.com moves to buy up under Canwest, or some other media controlled giants,  that hold the way we see information. Our radios, to our televisions, to our newspapers.

So how is televsion currently being controlled to see that our info we see is censored,  to think that such conglomerations will move from that medium to the internet. Open source means access to infomration should be free, but how can it if televsion switches over. Skype?

While government sold off whitespace it should have been alloted to an "open society with free access" instead of money gathering for governement to provide control by big busness.

You see? I think some know of my feelings about "political ideology" being spread by the Asper family. And we know the Asper family owns Canwest? How shall we get past the Keith Baldries with knowing that information is thought biased?

Best,

Here's a better solution to their baloney cries for public support:

1) National-democratization of the communication-industrial complex outside of media enterprises;

2) The capture of all economic rent in the broadcast spectrum (Michael Hudson the Georgist made comments regarding the application of classical economics to the broadcast spectrum - Google [I][URL=http://www.google.com/search?&q=michael+hudson+broadcast+spectrum]Michael Hudson broadcast spectrum[/URL][/I]) by first means of instituting the "land value tax" equivalent to the broadcast spectrum;

3) The application of the funds derived from #2 towards exclusively public purposes, including non-selective encouragement of, and unconditional economic assistance (both technical and financial) for, pre-cooperative worker buyouts of existing media enterprises and media enterprise operations.

Nice to see this story was picked up here.  Just heard a brief blurb on their socalled competition at CBC, just only long enough to hear they consider themselves essential to free speech in this country.  Most brazen bit of hypocracy I've heard in...well, even more than others I've heard since the free markets decided they needed direct public funding. 

Interesting ideas Jacob Richtor; the rightwing media is the number one problem in North America, why all the others keep getting worse. 

Do they really have the (legal) power to deny people a licence for that; aren't the air waves recognised as belonging to noone and therefore everyone by law?  What I'm getting at is they by denying some the right to broadcast based on no solid legal grounds they jeaprodize their own claims too.(something in our constitutions too I recall)   That could be an effective wedge issue if your friend had enough support to take it to court.  Just a thought.