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In reply to the discussion: DROP EVERYTHING & TAKE ACTION!: Time to Launch Largest Protest the FCC Has Ever Seen [View all]dotymed
(5,610 posts)President Obama picks and instructs the FCC board. The same with every President and they use the FCC as a powerful tool (propaganda is immensely valuable to them).
FDR used the FCC to implement the FAIRNESS DOCTRINE, IMO this rule was what insured Americans were the best informed citizens in the world.
Of course Reagan had his FCC appointees stop enforcing this very important, anti-propaganda, pro- all viewpoints legislation.
Then, President Obama had his appointees remove all of the language connected to the Fairness Doctrine...unbelievable for a Democrat buy not a democrat, I guess.
Now, after his PROMISE (as a candidate of course) to protect Net Neutrality, he has instructed HIS FCC to end Net Neutrality
and sell out to (like the entire American Government has) corporate interests.
Yes, I will call Obamas FCC chairman and demand net neutrality be protected, but I will also call the real power behind the FCC,
President Obama. I have watched the democratic party leave me and what I believed were Democratic values for the
sake of corporate money. This shit would really be hard to pass under a rethuglican president. I find myself disappointed and unrepresented (like the vast majority of average Americans) when some of the most harmful legislation is passed under a
democratic President. ie ..Clinton and NAFTA.
That is why I have decided (know) that until we UNITE as Americans who are sick of corporate/elite rule (it doesn't matter what "party" you are in) and take to the streets and cause Democratic change. We will remain serfs with no say-so (that counts)
and no Democracy.