From the Electronic Frontier Foundation comes this "action alert" that should concern all media scholars:

Stop Senator Stevens' Digital Restrictions Bill

You may know Ted Stevens as the 82-year old Senator who infamously explained that the Internet "isn't a truck.... It's a series of tubes." Unfortunately, the latest version of his telecom reform bill is even worse than his talent for metaphor. Hollywood and Net censors have larded his proposal with severe restrictions on your digital freedoms. Stevens is pushing to get the votes to take his bill through the Senate before the November elections. Tell your Senator to stand against it now:

http://action.eff.org/stevens

The "action alert" continues:

Hollywood has slipped its long-desired broadcast and audio flag government mandates into the bill, giving it and federal bureaucrats a veto over new digital media devices. By doing so, the entertainment industry hope to take away your ability to make lawful uses of audio and video content. Meanwhile, in an attempt to limit access to "sexually explicit" material, Net censors have sneaked in a dangerous provision that would allow the imprisonment of webmasters who don't litter their sites with burdensome, inappropriate warning labels. Even worse, these provisions won't meaningfully serve any legitimate purposes. The flags won't stop "Internet piracy," no matter how crippled TVs and radios get. And the web labeling provisions won't impact the majority of adult websites because they are hosted outside the United States and won't stop anyone from accessing pornography.

Write to your Senator now and tell them to get these damaging provisions out of the bill, and stop Senator Stevens' restricting your digital freedoms.

Take action now:

http://action.eff.org/stevens

For more on the bill:

http://www.eff.org/IP/telecom/