Fritz Hollings

South Carolina Democrat Senator Ernest Frederick Hollings (generally known as Fritz Hollings) is noted for his support for legislation that is in the interests of the established media distribution industry, such as the proposed "Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act". He has been described by opponents as the 'Senator from Disney'.

Hollings is also sponsoring the Online Personal Privacy Act[?] (S. 2201), another anti-consumer measure.

this is a stub article -- much more needs to be written about this senator, his sources of funding, &c.

External links:

• Center for Responsive Politics figures on Hollings' funding (http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.asp?CID=N00002423&cycle=2002)
• Hollings' own web page (http://www.senate.gov/~hollings/)
• Salon article on the Online Personal Privacy Act (http://salon.com/tech/feature/2002/04/26/hollings_spyware/index)
• LawMeme article about the Online Personal Privacy Act (http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=195)