Since the announcement has basically no real content: Apart from net neutrality, what things are company execs drooling over after reading this? Bandwidth assignments? Wireless testing requirements? Spam restrictions?
Of all then agencies being compelled to abandon their reason for existence, the FCC joining the herd is troubling yet all I can do is shrug. The “efficiency by contrition” approach is completely contrary to the mandates given by the public at large for decades - and claiming this Administration’s actions reflect a genuine authorization is a blatant lie. A vast percentage of the US population are effectively told simple majority rule is the justification to dismantle functioning, worthwhile elements of the Federal Government, and that’s in many respects - the FCC will be a fascinating case study.
Let’s deregulate broadcast television so that supporters of this administration have even less recourse for policing morality on the airwaves. Let’s take away criminal punishments for high jacking AM or FM terrestrial radio broadcasts. Let’s see how they like it when their beloved Conservative Talk show radio programs are forcibly interrupted by Muslim calls to prayer six times per day. Some people just are so emotionally and intellectually deprived that facing the consequences of their actions, en masse, might be divine justice so to speak.
My general experience is that people who've actual self-built an empire (ex. Bezos) are actually very aware of history + cause and effect. While the guy that needs to work overtime to afford groceries and gas is more likely to claim the government needs to get out of their medicaid.
So, Bezos et al should be extremely aware that the great depression was followed by a massive expansion of government under FDR. Even under Biden there are a lot of claims of a recesssion and the under Trump the USG is trying to cut exports (~11% of GDP) and USG spending (~25% of GDP). Like how are they not going to trigger a depression when going after 30% of the economy? Do they figure they have the government all locked up?
There are a couple of things that human’s in general are bad at, and intuition is unhelpful, even if you are otherwise an intelligent, learned person. Two I see pop up a lot are Statistics and Systems Thinking. In particular with Systems Thinking, people tend to assume that things that have a simple clear relationship at the scale they operate in, will have the same effect when applied at the scale of the system as a whole. Which is quite often not the case.
First, I nominate scrapping this whole idea of frequency allocation to private parties. Regulation can't get more heavy-handed, askew, and favoring incumbents than designating that most everybody is prohibited from doing anything while some other parties may do whatever they like.
Second, I nominate removing every restriction on intentional and unintentional radiators. Those hooks have been used to create a whole extragovernmental regulatory apparatus of testing labs.
Third, the regulations requiring manufacturers to implement code signing on wireless chipsets. This maybe should have been first because it's so abhorrent to individual freedom, but the scope is narrow compared to the first two.
Also since we're talking about "economic opportunity" and Republicans have been complaining about regulatory agencies acting beyond their congressional mandate - now that they control congress, surely there is a net neutrality bill making its way through the legislative process?
Since the announcement has basically no real content: Apart from net neutrality, what things are company execs drooling over after reading this? Bandwidth assignments? Wireless testing requirements? Spam restrictions?
Of all then agencies being compelled to abandon their reason for existence, the FCC joining the herd is troubling yet all I can do is shrug. The “efficiency by contrition” approach is completely contrary to the mandates given by the public at large for decades - and claiming this Administration’s actions reflect a genuine authorization is a blatant lie. A vast percentage of the US population are effectively told simple majority rule is the justification to dismantle functioning, worthwhile elements of the Federal Government, and that’s in many respects - the FCC will be a fascinating case study.
Let’s deregulate broadcast television so that supporters of this administration have even less recourse for policing morality on the airwaves. Let’s take away criminal punishments for high jacking AM or FM terrestrial radio broadcasts. Let’s see how they like it when their beloved Conservative Talk show radio programs are forcibly interrupted by Muslim calls to prayer six times per day. Some people just are so emotionally and intellectually deprived that facing the consequences of their actions, en masse, might be divine justice so to speak.
I'm actually really interested in the end-game.
My general experience is that people who've actual self-built an empire (ex. Bezos) are actually very aware of history + cause and effect. While the guy that needs to work overtime to afford groceries and gas is more likely to claim the government needs to get out of their medicaid.
So, Bezos et al should be extremely aware that the great depression was followed by a massive expansion of government under FDR. Even under Biden there are a lot of claims of a recesssion and the under Trump the USG is trying to cut exports (~11% of GDP) and USG spending (~25% of GDP). Like how are they not going to trigger a depression when going after 30% of the economy? Do they figure they have the government all locked up?
There are a couple of things that human’s in general are bad at, and intuition is unhelpful, even if you are otherwise an intelligent, learned person. Two I see pop up a lot are Statistics and Systems Thinking. In particular with Systems Thinking, people tend to assume that things that have a simple clear relationship at the scale they operate in, will have the same effect when applied at the scale of the system as a whole. Which is quite often not the case.
"a new wave of economic opportunity", eh?
First, I nominate scrapping this whole idea of frequency allocation to private parties. Regulation can't get more heavy-handed, askew, and favoring incumbents than designating that most everybody is prohibited from doing anything while some other parties may do whatever they like.
Second, I nominate removing every restriction on intentional and unintentional radiators. Those hooks have been used to create a whole extragovernmental regulatory apparatus of testing labs.
Third, the regulations requiring manufacturers to implement code signing on wireless chipsets. This maybe should have been first because it's so abhorrent to individual freedom, but the scope is narrow compared to the first two.
Also since we're talking about "economic opportunity" and Republicans have been complaining about regulatory agencies acting beyond their congressional mandate - now that they control congress, surely there is a net neutrality bill making its way through the legislative process?
My neck just twitched in a way it never has before. Thank you for that.
"Prosperity through deregulation" ROTFLOL