I have been thinking about censorship for some time. More often it has been in respect to the Internet. But the new CES show is on, and there is a wealth of new XM satellite equipment coming to market. And this is now making ‘radio’ content, a global, one source issue.
I have mentioned before that if you can not control the message, then the next best thing is to control the messenger. This applies for news on the internet, and now news on the XM network. Systems like CNN and BBC have always known this, but as there were multiple channels to crosscheck and verify the quality of information. There was less ability to control the content of the message.
Now that the content can be in a singe channel, XM, and digital. Controlled content can now be sent to places that were unreachable before, even beyond the reach of the internet.