(FCC Commissioner) Copps Not Persuaded By Comcast/NBCU Pledges

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Source: Broadcasting and Cable

If a majority of the panelists on the online portion of the FCC's Chicago forum on the Comcast/NBCU deal are right, it is all about access to video content online.

One of those was the only FCC commissioner in attendance, Michael Copps. "I cannot, I will not, accept half-hearted pledges of fairness from industry when the future of the Web is at stake. And right now the assurances and conditions we have received on this Comcast/NBCU proposal don't pass the red-face test," he said. "How many times do we have to experience the fall-out when critical decisions are entrusted only to those in industry without credible public policy oversight?"

Copps likened the deregulatory climate that allowed large media mergers to the one that allowed the BP oils spill and financial crisis, a point seconded by Markham Erickson of the Open Internet Coalition, who pitched strong conditions on the merger.

Read more: http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/454731-Copps_Not_Persuaded_By_Comcast_NBCU_Pledges.php

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Hopefully Copps prevails.

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1. K&R

[Enthusiast]

2. I like the words.

Now, let's see the results.

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4. +1

[ProudDad]

3. Copps is the real deal! (n/t)

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