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aberrantangelsRecap that perhaps shouldn't be necessary. (Edited 3:47 PM to close the Bold tags, something which definitely shouldn't have been necessary. *^^* )
I mentioned that letter already, as one of the people who are fine with anything that maintains America's status as Top Nation and in mortal fear of anything someone else does that threatens that status, even if the acts are basically identical. That observation still stands, and if![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bellatrys is reading and understanding these things, I'd be surprised to find she didn't agree with them. (Then again, this isn't one of her fandoms, so I might be more surprised if she were following it.)
Former FCC chairman Mark Rosenthal (whose OTL namesake is a former head of MTV Networks) later said it was a "damn headache" trying to impose any central control, let alone censorship, on the OpNet. "Sure, there are parent locks, and most of the really bad stuff is on expensive pay services, but still, there's always going to be someone out there trying to corrupt the youth of America [sic], and if they're broadcasting out of some tree in Botswana, what the hell could we do about it?"
1999
[Aberrant] A letter to the editor of the New York Times warns that the Rashoud facilities are actually UN/Æon recruiting facilities. "Can't you see it? They're building an army.... And God help us, we're letting them do it.... If anyone should be recruiting American novas, it should be the American government."
I mentioned that letter already, as one of the people who are fine with anything that maintains America's status as Top Nation and in mortal fear of anything someone else does that threatens that status, even if the acts are basically identical. That observation still stands, and if
bellatrys is reading and understanding these things, I'd be surprised to find she didn't agree with them. (Then again, this isn't one of her fandoms, so I might be more surprised if she were following it.)2004
[Aberrant] The UN announces the formation of the Global Media Council to study the effects of the OpNet.
Former FCC chairman Mark Rosenthal (whose OTL namesake is a former head of MTV Networks) later said it was a "damn headache" trying to impose any central control, let alone censorship, on the OpNet. "Sure, there are parent locks, and most of the really bad stuff is on expensive pay services, but still, there's always going to be someone out there trying to corrupt the youth of America [sic], and if they're broadcasting out of some tree in Botswana, what the hell could we do about it?"
