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FCC Settles Censorship Claims with ClearChannel
The Importance of writes "Earlier this week Slashdot debated whether the FCC should be abolished. One of the reasons many think the FCC should go away is because of censorship. Well, yesterday, the FCC settled all existing censorship investigations with Clear Channel for $1.75M and a promise to be better in the future, such as by firing DJs for their first offense. Clear Channel also plead guilty to violating indecency standards, but no one is saying what, exactly they said that was wrong. On the other hand, the FCC seems to have forgotten that they
decided a couple of months ago to regulate profanity in addition to indecency. In other FCC news, they've posted the internet section of the FCC History Project."
...but Clear Channel is evil in a good way :)
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I would hardly call this censorship...
Get real here! If you want to see boobies, you have the CHOICE to see them. You have the internet, books, magazines, videos, etc. I bet that you could find plenty of pictues of boobies at several stores within 10 miles of your house. You can probably get at least one cable channel dedicated to boobies. So I am NOT telling you that you can't watch all the boobies that you want.
But what if I choose to watch entertainment that is booby-free? It seems that there is nothing safe short of Sesame Street. During the superbowl, nobody asked me if I wanted to see any boobies. I was never given a choice. I just tuned in to see a good football game. It is not that boobies are terrible, but they ARE out of place at a sporting event which has a broad range of the public watching. The point is that there is a place for everything, and the public has a right to know what to expect in any sort of entertainment.
And the whole thing about Howard Stern getting canceled bothers me. Yes, I do agree that he has some crude and inappropriate stuff. But people generally know to expect that from him. If you don't like it turn him off. I would hope that he would go off the air because people develop a sense of good taste, and NOT because he is run off of the air.
PS. I bet that if, instead of Janet Jackson, they had a Christian evangelist show up and do a 15-minute sermon, that the same people who are now crying "censorship" would thing that this was an inappropriate thing and start complaining. And for the record, I would think that it would be inappropriate too.
"-1 Troll" is the apparently the same as "-1 I disagree with you."
Gotta love the Slashdot, anti-Bush, can't get pussy attitude. Thank god for president Bush, telling all of those Euro-trash assholes to go fuck themselves. :-)
I want my rights back. I was actually using them when our government stole them after 9/11.
No, we do not act like 12 year olds. *Some* of us act like adults and realize that not all things are considered appropriate for all audiences, like a breast popping out during a time when kids (or even whole families) are watching a football game. There is no reason to have nudity in a football game. We have premium channels for people who need to see that stuff while they are watching football. For others the game itself is sufficient.
this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom. -- Lincoln, Gettysburg Address