Obama Appoints Gamer to Co-Chair FCC Transition Team
President-elect Barack Obama brings hope and the promise of change with him as he prepares for his transition into the White House, and some of it relates to issues we gamers care about. While it does involve one of my least favorite organizations, the FCC, the good news is that the team Obama has put together to review the FCC includes a WoW player. That’s right fellow gamers, one of us.
Obama’s team will “ensure that senior appointees have the information necessary to complete the confirmation process, lead their departments, and begin implementing signature policy initiatives immediately after they are sworn in.”
Basically, making sure everything goes as smoothly as possible. The two people Obama’s chosen to chair this transition are Kevin Werbach and Susan Crawford.
Kevin Werbach is the assistant professor of legal studies and business ethics at Wharton. Along with being a net neutrality advocate, Werbach is an outspoken World of Warcraft player. Back in 2006, Werbach wrote on his personal blog:
“I play Warcraft because it’s fun. It’s taking time away from watching TV, reading books, and other entertainment pursuits. But I’m also playing because I believe MMOGs will be one of the primary forms of social software for the next decade. Defined broadly, they may become the dominant form of social software. And you can’t understand games without experiencing them first-hand.”
Finally, somebody who gets it has some authority with the FCC. Although it’s not clear whether he plays
Alliance or Horde. You can view his original blog post here.
Don’t count out Werbach’s fellow co-chair and Obama’s other appointee, Susan Crawford. She teaches communications and internet law at the University of Michigan, and while she may not play WoW, she is also a net neutrality advocate and says she enjoys Second Life. More importantly, Crawford believes that internet access has become so necessary to our society that it should be a “utility.”
“[Internet access] is like water, electricity, sewage systems: Something that each and all Americans need to succeed in the modern era,” she said at a telecom policy conference back in March.
So if Crawford and Werbach have anything to say about it, everyone in the United States will soon be playing World of Warcraft ( Buy wow gold ). Okay, that may not be completely accurate, but I feel good knowing we’ve got people like them involved in this transition, especially when it comes to the FCC.
While the FCC is noble in their efforts to protect children from certain materials, many of their policies seem to do more to stifle creativity and take away parental responsibility, two things I greatly disagree with. I think Seth MacFarlane sang it best:
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Obama’s team will “ensure that senior appointees have the information necessary to complete the confirmation process, lead their departments, and begin implementing signature policy initiatives immediately after they are sworn in.”
Basically, making sure everything goes as smoothly as possible. The two people Obama’s chosen to chair this transition are Kevin Werbach and Susan Crawford.
Kevin Werbach is the assistant professor of legal studies and business ethics at Wharton. Along with being a net neutrality advocate, Werbach is an outspoken World of Warcraft player. Back in 2006, Werbach wrote on his personal blog:
“I play Warcraft because it’s fun. It’s taking time away from watching TV, reading books, and other entertainment pursuits. But I’m also playing because I believe MMOGs will be one of the primary forms of social software for the next decade. Defined broadly, they may become the dominant form of social software. And you can’t understand games without experiencing them first-hand.”
Finally, somebody who gets it has some authority with the FCC. Although it’s not clear whether he plays
Alliance or Horde. You can view his original blog post here.
Don’t count out Werbach’s fellow co-chair and Obama’s other appointee, Susan Crawford. She teaches communications and internet law at the University of Michigan, and while she may not play WoW, she is also a net neutrality advocate and says she enjoys Second Life. More importantly, Crawford believes that internet access has become so necessary to our society that it should be a “utility.”
“[Internet access] is like water, electricity, sewage systems: Something that each and all Americans need to succeed in the modern era,” she said at a telecom policy conference back in March.
So if Crawford and Werbach have anything to say about it, everyone in the United States will soon be playing World of Warcraft ( Buy wow gold ). Okay, that may not be completely accurate, but I feel good knowing we’ve got people like them involved in this transition, especially when it comes to the FCC.
While the FCC is noble in their efforts to protect children from certain materials, many of their policies seem to do more to stifle creativity and take away parental responsibility, two things I greatly disagree with. I think Seth MacFarlane sang it best:
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