NEWS: FCC Does The Bidding Of One Group Of Assholes

I thought this article was going to be about The National Association of Broadcasters. You know, the FCC's true masters.

How about we not leave it to the GOVERNMENT to parent our children, or us for that matter, pretending they dont exist isnt going to make it go away.

CUNTSHITFUCKBULLSHITBALLSCRAPNIGGER

see they still exist

Fuck the FCC, go freedom

done

Cthulhu 2008
Why vote for the lesser of two evils?

I hate the Parents Television Council. But you know what I like to do? Use their website to counteract their work. Kind of like how they flood the FCC with complaints. Simply click on the link to who ever they wish you to contact. There you will be presented with a form email which you can edit. I simply delete the form letter and write what ever I want. Usually it is either supporting a sponsor or telling a representative not to bow to a certain special interest group.

You immoral bastards.
WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN??!!!

Voters do elect the Congress, but that doesn't mean that the person in office stands for the exact values of his/her constituents. They have the ability to vote any way they want.

Also, Congress does not oversee the FCC. The 5 commissioners of the FCC are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. Congress may have increased the fine, but that doesn't mean anything is going to become more censored. As long as they stick to the FCC's rules they won't be fined.

it all reminds me in a roundabout way of that line from "Apocalypse Now":

"We train young men to drop fire on people. But their commanders won't allow them to write "fuck" on their airplanes because it's obscene!"

+Ohio

hmm and i wonder who will be the first group with complaints when tv is all gone coz the networks cant afford to run due to fines. these fuckers need to get out more into the real world if you ask me

^ You need to worry more about media consolidation than this silly "decency" issue.

And then there's this, which I don't fully understand, but I know it's bad. Bad!

So what is really curious is these people get thier panties all ina bunch over a tittie and some "obscene" language, but they have no problem with all the violence and murders that occurs on the T.V. on a minute by minute basis. Sounds like thier priorities are fucked up to me.

Finally a good use for lawyers...who would have thunk it.

I'm not certain but controlling what is broad casted sounds unconstitutional? Damn you reaper you are sucking me into your evil liberal views. By the way great article.

FCC 101

Many many decades ago, it was decided that broadcast spectrum is a finite resource, and must be regulated to prevent it from becoming useless due to interference.
(If two TV channels both broad casted on channel 11, than nobody with a TV would be able to receive a clear channel 11 signal)
It was also decided that the American people owned the broadcast spectrum, and the government could license spectrum to corporations with the promise that they would broadcast media in the interest of "the public good".

This means that you, I and everyone who are supposed to control the government, own the spectrum, and they regulate it for us. The government created the FCC, who is empowered to fine or revoke the licenses of the companies they are issued to, if they do not broadcast in the interest of the people.
Thus, the reason why "public indecency" is not allowed on public airwaves.

Cable is completely different, and the government has no ability to regulate it, no matter what they think they can do. Cable is a medium owned wholly by corporations, and attempting to regulate its programming is a 100% free speech issue.

Awww... thanks!