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  TechnologyExpert

  Dec. 18, 2007, 2:23 p.m.

  Martin pushed the vote through despite intense pressure from House and Senate members on Capitol Hill to delay it.

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  It makes one wonder which media conglomerate he will work for when he leaves the FCC. After all it was clear that public opinion and Congress were strongly against this.
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  bubba2

  Dec. 18, 2007, 3:23 p.m.

  Why should they let public opinion stop them? They don't serve the public anyway - that has been apparent for quite some time.

  They all only serve the big "cheeses" who donate BIG bucks to their campaigns or otherwise give them money and perks. The regular people of this country do NOT count anymore.

  If it were not for the internet, most of us would really be clueless to so much of the CR*P that goes on in government and in corporate America.
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  doppich

  Dec. 18, 2007, 7:05 p.m.

  The trivial question now is whether the candy-a55 Congress is going to just roll over, or make some noise and then roll over anyway.
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  vvv63vvv

  Dec. 19, 2007, 1:25 a.m.

  Congress has the power to throw out these rules -- and if 100,000 people demand it, they'll have to listen. Sign the open letter to Congress urging them to stop the FCC and stand with the public interest.

  http://action.freepress.net/campaign/sbmopenletter
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  unome2

  Dec. 19, 2007, 8:23 a.m.

  A free press is the last thing our new fasist regime needs.

  This is a very bad day for America. I had always thought that the FCC was created to prevent this kind of thing from happening.
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  GHOSTWHOWALKS

  Dec. 19, 2007, 8:31 a.m.

  Now really, who couldn't see this coming? Write letter, send faxes, call the fat cat congress, and does anyone expect them to do anything? Makes as much sense as spitting into the wind and about as useless.
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  unome2

  Dec. 19, 2007, 9 a.m.

  "You know well that government always kept a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, invented and put into the papers whatever might serve the ministers. This suffices with the mass of the people who have no means of distinguishing the false from the true paragraphs of a newspaper." --Thomas Jefferson to G. K. van Hogendorp, Oct. 13, 1785. (*) ME 5:181, Papers 8:632

  "Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.": Jefferson, Thomas 3rd President of the United States (1801-1809)

  "The closed door and the sealed lips are prerequisites to tyranny.": Stanton, Frank L.

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  joeblowe

  Dec. 19, 2007, 11:51 a.m.

  This is a total load of crap. I heard yesterday that in public hearings on this matter, 99% - yes, that's right 99 out of 100 people in the general public who showed up for the hearings were AGAINST allowing this as it puts too much control of the "news" in too few hands. Looks like that is EXACTLY what the FCC wants.

  Son of a bitch. Does ANYONE have any idea how we can get our country back? It is VERY clear that the people that have somehow been put in these positions do NOT have the interests of ordinary citizens in mind at all.
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  ladylou4

  Dec. 19, 2007, 2:17 p.m.

  What an outrage! We need to write our legislators in addition to signing the free press letter. (See vvv63.vvv post and link above.) Protect our freedoms, especially the rights to think, speak, publish and petition!!
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  NelsonR

  Dec. 19, 2007, 4:11 p.m.

  America epitome's a corrupt civilization that is run by money grubbing individuals who have an agenda.

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