Belmont Club

By Richard Fernandez

Bio

Get Updates From Richard Fernandez
A Comment About

Which way did he go, George?

March 4, 2009 - 1:29 am - by Richard Fernandez
Ashcat
2009-03-04 19:42:04

Geoffgo #79: IMO you dismiss this possibility too readily. Take your own example of the Fairness Doctrine: such a rule makes sense only in a BROADCAST model of information dissemination. They are always fighting the last battle, and this is another example. The Fairness Doctrine loses meaning in a Multicast world. When one person makes one comment to a friend, that cannot be legislated against with the Fairness Doctrine. If he has a modem and chooses to make that statement public, for the first time in human history potentially every person in the world could get the message. Such information exchange can’t be prevented with the Fairness Doctrine. Rush is a fair target for 0 because he exists in a broadcast world.