[gurps] Treaty on Public Utilities and life support devices

[Troy Guffey]

From: "Travis Watkins" <terwin3 at gmail.com>

> As far as not making a profit, might I point out how many radio
> stations there are, but how few of them are non-profit or listener
> supported?
>
> How many stations do you have on TV and how many of them are PBS?
> How much time do most people spend watching PBS as opposed to
> CBS/NBC/ABC/Fox/CNN/HBO?
>
> If you remove the opportunity to make a decent profit, you remove the
> incentive to get into that market, thus reducing the number of choices
> available and that in turn reduces the need to compete.

I'm not saying that profit-fueled competition isn't BETTER, just that 
non-profit providers would work.  I think the "non-profit" thing is to 
discourage the *greedy* companies.  Like those that change their filters at 
the last possible second rather than optimal filter changes, and the like.

> Also, when providing media, a 'minimum standard' quickly falls victim
> to the 'think of the children' mentality where certain people will be
> very loud in insisting that the radio/tv/internet needs to be
> sanitized so that children can not be exposed to things that those
> specific individuals object to(such as evolution or sex-ed in addition
> to porn and predators.  And of those four, which ones do you think
> will get in anyway?  Hint: it is not the first two)


Yeah, I dislike those people as well.  Filter the data OUTLETS your children 
can use, not the data SOURCE.  They just don't want to do the minimal 
supervision themselves.  For myself, I turn off any offered filters.  The 
only source-side filters I do like are junk mail filters(Go Gmail!), and 
them only because aggregating all opinions on what is spam makes them work 
better.
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