Bob's Backyard

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Recently the Federal Communications Commission released their new “Broadband” report on America.  It seems that the wireless companies have run out of space to provide broadband service to the public.

There’s some things I want you to keep in mind:  Wireless companies don’t give you access to information for free.  A very large donor to Obama’s campaign happens to be R. Gerard Salemme, the Vice President of  Policy of Clearwire Communications, a Sprint partner.

Remember the big DTV Conversion that was delayed from February to June of last year?  It was likely done to help Clearwire, while hurting AT&T and Verizon.  Source is here.

So what?  Obama’s dirty, all politicians are dirty.  But the government just keeps getting dirtier.  They know they can get away with it, but YOU don’t care.

Look, the government took over the banking industry.

Next, they took over GM.  Speaking of which, does it seem right that same government that owns a majority of General Motors is suddenly very interested in proving that Toyota is a murderer?  Now they chasing down Honda.  They can’t have Toyota selling a lot of cars, they are a huge competitor to GM.  But nobody seems to be mentioning that in the media.  The same media that announced that Barack Obama had won the presidential election in September of 2008.  The politicians “own” the major media.  Local radio has been dead forever, taken over by the likes of ClearChannel and the rest of the big corporations.  Newspapers are going bankrupt every day.  All that’s left is television and the Internet.

The Internet isn’t that hard.  They just claim that there’s kiddie porn on a site they don’t like, and they shut down the entire data center the sites running on.  They’ve done that recently.  Even Google will remove controversial videos from it’s YouTube site.  They’ve pulled some that claim that 9/11 was an inside job.  I don’t know on what grounds the videos were removed, they leave lots of other videos that are just as crazy.  Maybe there’s some truth to them so the government asks Goog to pull the plug on them.

Other sites get pulled supposedly for sharing movies and music illegally.  Maybe they are, maybe they aren’t.  But shouldn’t they be presumed innocent until proven guilty?  Or at least get the chance for a trial first?

And now the Government up to even more shenanigans.  While the major networks and national media are pretty much in Obama’s pocket, what would happen if a local TV station started to raise a stink about government corruption?  Not to worry, there’s a plan for that.

The FCC is threatening television broadcasters, the same ones that just spent millions of dollars to upgrade to digital TV, that they will either do things the easy way, or the hard way.  The easy way is to roll over and stop transmitting a free over the air signal to the public.  The hard way, well, let’s just say it’s pretty much the same, only instead of being voluntary the feds will simply shut them down.

But this is all “for the good of the nation”.  The wireless companies aren’t making enough money off mobile broadband and they need the frequencies that television is “hogging” so that they can sell even more wireless data at enormous profits. Not to get too sidetracked, but did you know that it costs nothing for the wireless companies to send a text message?  They are sent over the control channel of the tower that would normally just transmit a bunch of zeros when it’s not in use, but they found a way to squeeze text messages in there without taking up ANY unused capacity from the system.  And they charge 20 cents or so for it.  Brilliant!!

Anyway, I do have a point here, and I’m getting to it.

By shutting down local broadcasters and giving that spectrum to the wireless companies, Obama’s buddies make more money, which they undoubtedly will pass a portion of under the table to their friends in government.

And they claim that they are doing this to improve “broadband”.  But when you follow the chain of dominoes that falls down,  what they’re really trying to do is cut off your access to information itself.  And since they can’t do it by law (that damn first amendment gets in the way), they’re finding other ways to do it…