DISQUS

Don Krieger · 1 year ago

We have placed the opinion online in convenient form:
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Adam Thierer · 1 year ago

Quick follow-up... Sinclair Stewart of the Global and Mail (Canada) called me yesterday for comment on the long-term implications of the case for a story he was doing. Here's what I told him:

Adam Thierer, a senior fellow at the Progress and Freedom Association, a market-oriented think tank in Washington, argued that the FCC's aggressive fight against indecency is hastening the demise of the broadcast industry, which has already been hurt by alternative media like the Internet and cable. “These policies are beginning to write the death warrant for over-the-air broadcasting, because they unfairly single out the platform,” he said. He added that although the FCC is attempting to protect children with these policies, fewer young people are tuning into broadcast television, opting instead for largely unregulated media.

“One wonders what is the sense of all this in a world of media abundance,” he said. “The FCC is protecting adults from themselves.”