The public gets not one penny from them in return for those airwaves.

Copyright protects corporate monopoly rights over culture and provides much of the profits to media conglomeratesm encouraging the wholesale privatization of our common culture.

When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it's picking the winners in the competition.

Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it.

Advertising is the voice of capital. We need to do whatever we can to limit capitalist propaganda, regulate it, minimize it, and perhaps even eliminate it. The fight against hyper-commercialism becomes especially pronounced in the era of digital communications.

The range of debate between the dominant U.S. [political] parties tends to closely resemble the range of debate within the business class.

When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was picking the winners of the competition; it wasn't setting the terms of the competition.