Do we still have the freedom to go to the bathroom during commericals or must we remain glued to the TV once a commercial starts?
Here's an interesting line:
"And civil libertarians havent met an affront that didnt equal a stake through the heart of individual rights."
This bill needs to die a quick death. In addition to the obvious problem with trying to overregulate people in this manner (are you kidding me? Illegal to fast forward through commercials?) there is absolutely no reason for any bill that supports the leftists in Hollywood and that industry to make it into law under a Republican president with a Republican congress.
The fact that a Republican congress and a Republican administration are giving away the store to Hollyweird, rather than stripping away what they arrogated to themselves under the previous regime, confirms that the GOP is The Stupid Party.
How long were humans smoking pot before moron politicians thought they'd be able to ban that?
People will smoke pot, people will eliminate objectionable content and commercials - and nobody gives a shiite what politicians "think" (assuming their peabrains do anything remotely resembling thinking).
These idiots need to be sent home if this is all they have to waste time on.
Ignore stupid laws.
'Content providers' have bought too many Congressmen and had too many laws written for them already. Enough. These buggy-whip industries need to update or die, not use their money to buy Congressmen to prop them up with onerous regulations.
Would that I could hit the mute button when congress is in session.
This article is a year old. What ever came of the IPPA? If something this onerous had actually passed, I'd hope we would have heard about it.
I WILL take up arms!
Great. Two senile old coots, who together don't have the intellectual horsepower necessary to plug in a VCR, are in the driver's seat.
The Republican Party is done, and needs to go the way of the Whigs.
Nice way to kill entertainment of the TV and movie sort. Next, there will be a law requiring US citizens to mandatorily watch 4 hours of TV per day.
This is from a year ago. Is there an update?
Keep zapping. They can't lock us all up, cna they?
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Arresting people for fastforwarding through commercials? This has got to be the biggest joke congress has ever played on the american public. Any pol who sponsors stupidity like that can kiss reelection chances goodbye. What sheer insanity. Just how would they police something like? This whole article is satire, right? I must be dreaming. Sheesh.