Talk:Digital Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005

Quietly Into the Night

Unlike other Acts with similarly broad scope and sweeping effect, DTPSA was imposed without challenge on the American public. That it should have been thus accepted was curious; Americans are normally (an healthily) of diverse opinion on such top-down sea changes, but in this case there seems to have been little public discussion. Two things ought to have raised questions and started at least some debate: government-provided converter modules ("freebies" are a reliable sign of liberties being co-opted) and that the Act's title included the anomalous phrase "Public Safety" (without fail, autocrats present increases in government powers as "for your own safety"). What harm to have allowed Analog to continue side-by-side with Digital, even if to dwindle over the years a la Citizen's Band radio? Public self-determination seems anathema to Big Government.

108.160.235.79 (talk) 05:21, 4 February 2016 (UTC)