Global Crisis: Governments vs. the Media

Canada will launch a massive remaking of the Canadian cable TV ecosystem on March 1amp160 First just mandating minibundlesamp160 Come January 1 2017 mandating a la carteThe United States regulatory body known as the Federal Confusion Commission wants to do something similar by quotopeningquot up the settop box to modernday claim jumpersamp160 And the FBI wants Apple to write some codeChina39s Xi Jinping who holds the titles of General Secretary of the Communist Party and of the Central Committee and Chairman of the Central Military Commission and also the President of the People39s Republic of China wants his country39s media to simply worship himTurkey39s president once premier Recep Tayhyin Erdogan just wants to control every word about himself in every medium even though Turkey39s highest court agrees ruling officials violated the rights of journalists who were jailed on espionage chargesIndia39s conservative Bharatiya Janata Party following student protests at Jawaharlal Nehru University arrested students for sedition amp8230 even though India39s constitution protects freedom of speechFrom last Friday39s New York Timesamp160An Egyptian court sentenced four Coptic Christian teenagers to up to five years in prisonamp160for quotinsulting Islamquot on FacebookIn Spain the government arrested puppeteers making fun of the crack down on dissentGreat Britain is pressuring British Telecom39s Openreach to restructure opening up infrastructure to competitorsFrench antiterror laws are restricting protests and free speechWearing a yellow Tshirt in Malaysia can get you arrestedamp160 The country39s High Court deemed yellow Tshirts quotthat call for a clean governmentquot constitute a national security threatAll of the meddling has one thing in common Actions are being taken simply because they can be takenGlad we have a First Amendment although listening to Donald Trump makes me sometimes wonder if that always will be a good thingamp160And I also wonder how long President Trump would honor itAbout an hour after I filed the paragraph above The Hollywood Reporter ran this quotThe GOP presidential frontrunner made the following comments during a rally in Fort Worth Texas on Friday amp160quotI39m going to open up those libel laws so when The New York Times and The Washington Post writeamp160a hit piece we can sue them and win moneyquotRegulatory overreach will take more than the 1st Amendment to stop that amp8230 both Congress and the Courts with NetNeut a year old and in the courts really need to wake upRandom NotesSmart moves overseas by Liberty Global creating a quad play in some markets and adding a Twitter TV app to its Horizon settop boxes not to mention finally winning 775 million from VivendiViacom keeps getting more amazingamp160 Will selling part of Paramount help cover the 17 million Philippe Dauman got for reuppingamp160 Quite the dysfunctional boardamp160 Stock down 44 last fiscal year as revenue dropped 3 but Dauman gets 54 millionamp160 And he gets to give a deposition on Redstone39s healthToo many good questions on both sides of the AppleFBI brouhahaamp160 Both are right that the decisions belong with the Congress rather than the courts amp8230 but good luck with thatBut to be fair both Houses of Congress passed the ban on broadband taxes and the President signed the Bill last weekLindsay Graham is the only Republican making any senseThe opinions and points of view expressed in this commentary are exclusively the views of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of MediaVillagecomMyersBizNet Inc management or associated bloggers Image courtesy of freedigitalphotosnet

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