Of Democracy And Media Consolidation
March 14, 2007, 6:28pm
Viacom recently sued Google and its YouTube video-sharing service for $1 billion over alleged copyright violations. When a student at Howard University in Washington, D.C., asked Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards his thoughts on the lawsuit, Edwards used it as an opportunity to voice his support for equal pricing treatment of all high-speed Internet content and strong antitrust laws to prevent media consolidation.
“If democracy’s going to work in this country,” Edwards said, “then we want people to be well-informed and we want a wide variety of diverse voices to be heard. And that’s what’s at issue with these media conglomerates … What we see flourishing at the grassroots could be stomped on if we’re not careful.”
Categories: Technology, Presidency 2008, John Edwards, Media, Antitrust, Intellectual Property
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