Dan Gillmor, the journalist/blogger who won this year's EFF Pioneer Award, has tried to join the Broadcast Protection Discussion Group mailing list. The BPDG, a nominally "public" group that's writing a law that will neuter the personal computer, turned him down.
Viewers — customers — are not parties, naturally. And the press is specifically unwelcome to watch the deliberations.
I asked to be subscribed to the group's mailing list and got a kiss-off.
Remember, you can (and should!) sign up for the BPDG mailing lists (providing, of course, that you're not with the free press) and voice your objections as the group proceeds to neuter the technology industry, eliminate your fair-use freedoms, curtail innovation and outlaw free and open-source software.
