Akaku: Maui Community Television, along with Hawaii's other State owned, incumbent Public Access Cable Television Organizations, Hoike, Na Leo O Hawaii and Olelo attempt to enforce denial of access to video taped and cable cast meetings of the proceedings of the State of Hawaii Senate and House of Representatives.
HR105, Currently before the open session of the 2008 State of Hawaii, House of Representatives, would explicitly grant the State of Hawaii's, incumbent, obsolete, analog public access cable television organizations an exclusive right to carry the proceedings of the State of Hawaii Senate and House of Representatives and explicitly exclude Hawaiians and Satellite Television Customers that have not been provided access to the State of Hawaii's cable franchisee's cable system, including the tens of thousands (and rapidly growing) viewers a month that currently have free access to digital community television netcasts of these proceedings on the Internet and wireless Cell phone networks.
Do we really want the incumbent State owned, Public Access, cable television organizations like Akaku to have the right to exclude Hawaiians, especially on Hawaii's remote outer islands from access to our State Governement and restrict availability of the television coverage of Hawaii's public meetings of the Senate and House of Representatives to affluent members of our community that have both access to the cable and the ability to pay a monthly subscription fee to Time Warner Inc.?
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