The Federal Censorship Commission

[Zeb_Carter]

THE FEDERAL CENSORSHIP COMMISSION

The FCC is at it again. It wasn't enough to start fining broadcasters record amounts over supposedly indecent material. CBS had quite a tab over the Janet Jackson funbag incident at the Superbowl a few years ago. Well, now the FCC has set it sights elsewhere....on sporting events.

Now, by sporting events, they don't mean the halftime entertainment. They're talking about normal, in-game broadcasting. The want to crack down on any banter from the spectators that may be picked up and accidentally aired. You know the kind...where some guy in the front row screams the F word and the parabolic microphone on the sidelines inadvertently picks it up. Oh boy...your tax dollars at work.

The FCC is currently shaking down the networks for tapes of football games and NASCAR races, among other things. Not only is this ridiculous, but it completely violates the rights of all involved. Just where is it written that the FCC gets shake people down whenever they feel like it? Oh I know...they'll tell you the public owns the airwaves. That's a crock. Those airwaves are owned by the broadcasting companies that license them. The FCC should just be there to ensure the signals are properly allocated and nobody intrudes on another's space.

Think this doesn't matter? Just wait. The FCC has made noise about wanting to regulate the indecent content on cable. What's next? The Internet? Remember...once government censorship begins, it never ends as long as someone else gets to decide what is "indecent."

 

[Selena_Kitt]

[The want to crack down on any banter from the spectators that may be picked up and accidentally aired. You know the kind...where some guy in the front row screams the F word and the parabolic microphone on the sidelines inadvertently picks it up. Oh boy...your tax dollars at work.

and they are fining who? The networks?
The purpose is what? To keep microphones away from the crowd?

Hope they don't find a tape of me at the Red Wings game...

 

[minsue]

Remember...once government censorship begins, it never ends as long as someone else gets to decide what is "indecent."

It isn't just beginning, it's been ongoing. Step by step. Unfortunately, the majority of Americans seem quite happy with that.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

"In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king."

 

[Guest]

It isn't just beginning, it's been ongoing. Step by step. Unfortunately, the majority of Americans seem quite happy with that.

Not the majority. There's a loud minority who are just tickled pink (mostly, I think, because they are afraid their own behaviors out of town might get back to the congregation). There's a loud minority who are totally pissed about it. And then there's another group of people who are just too wound up in the day to day drudgery, too wound up in having a good time, or too wound up in something to have any attention, energy, or time left to wonder, worry and make a decision either way.

That's how it happens, you know. The larger portion of a population gets busy with mortgages and getting ahead, and they blindly trust that their government is doing what is right, or they feel that their little voice isn't going to change anything anyway.

Did you ever see the movie 1776? In the climactic scene, when there is one vote needed to pass the declaration of Independance, Pennsylvania is split with one of the three delegates waffling. He finally votes for Independence, not beecause he believes in the cause, but because he doesn't want the notority/fame that would come with being the man who stopped the declaration from being accepted. He doesn't want the bother of it.

I think that man is the Typical American.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

Damn it! What next? I suppose they are going to take away my intenet porn too.

I say, "Workers, rise up. The Revolution is upon us." (Oops. that was Woody Gutherie in 1932. Never mind.) The time has come to throw the neo-nazi rascals out and elect fine, upstanding, Porn-Friendly candidates to lead this country. Who's with me?

(God, SelenaKittyn's AV )

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Damn it! What next? I suppose they are going to take away my intenet porn too.

I say, "Workers, rise up. The Revolution is upon us." (Oops. that was Woody Gutherie in 1932. Never mind.) The time has come to throw the neo-nazi rascals out and elect fine, upstanding, Porn-Friendly candidates to lead this country. Who's with me?

(God, SelenaKittyn's AV )

I'm with ya! Now, if we could just find that candidate...