Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Our legislation addresses broadcasts over the public airwaves, but I hope the cable and satellite industries see the importance of this issue and voluntarily create a family tier of programming and offer culturally responsible products.
There are literally tens of thousands of very good content providers in the world that don't distribute their content through TV channels.
If policymakers are serious about avoiding a society of TV 'haves and have-nots,' they should refrain from policies that favor pay-TV operators over the providers of our nation's only free and local communications system: over-the-air broadcasting.
A reality that is electronic... Once everybody's got a computer terminal in their home, to satisfy all their needs, all the domestic needs, there'll be a dismantling of the present broadcasting structure, which is far too limited and limiting.
The satellite business is a very successful business, very profitable business, and serves the broadcast market in addition to the telecoms market.
Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.
So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent.
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.
TV broadcasting is owned, in the sense that governments around the world have asserted power over the airwaves that permeate their territories, deciding who can use what bandwidth and why - and those with licenses then, with exceptions determined by regulators, decide what to broadcast.
Parents should be allowed to choose which cable or satellite channels - sources of the most extreme content - come into their homes.