[mythtv-users] Cable Programmers versus the FCC

[R. G. Newbury]

David Brodbeck wrote:
> R. G. Newbury wrote:
>> And I just thought of a really nasty Freedom of Information request to 
>> be levied on the Commissioners of the CRTC.. (Yes they call each other 
>> Commissioner, tovarisch!). Which cableco provider do they use, what 
>> services, and HOW MUCH DO THEY PAY>
> 
> While that'd be educational, I don't think it would work.  What services 
> they privately subscribe to at home is probably not considered a public 
> record.  FOIA only entitles you to records government employees create 
> in the course of their jobs; it doesn't let you rummage around in their 
> private lives, unless they're dumb enough to mingle the two.
> 

Well it occurred to me that the provision of ie free cable service would 
be fall under the lobbying rules, and would therefore not be exempt from 
coverage.

Geoff