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FCC to Require Broadcasters to Keep Tapes of Shows
The Importance of writes "Under current FCC rules, in order to make an indecency complaint about a broadcast you have to provide "a significant excerpt from the program or a full or partial tape or transcript of the program." However, broadcasters aren't required to keep a tape of their broadcasts so, rarely, an indecency complaint gets dismissed for lack of evidence. But that is going to change. The FCC has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking [PDF] [TXT] that will require broadcasters to maintain recordings of their broadcasts for 60-90 days. The FCC is also considering reducing what you must claim in order to enter a complaint, thus opening the floodgates for indecency complaints by groups like the Parents Television Council, which is already keeping the FCC censors busy. Doesn't the government have better things to do?"
Perhaps the current US political administration should change their name to something that describes them more accurately, like "Taliban" rather than "republican".
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Surely there's already a very good rule for all this in that silly old book called the Bible ?
"If thine eye offends thee, pluck it out"
You Americans are crazy. One day one of you will attempt to sue the rest of the world because "my life didn't turn out perfect so it must be all your fault".
Sky subscribers are morons. They pay to be advertised at !
Edgy, but pure bullshit. Tell that to the all of the film-makers who got their inspiration from the first television show they saw as children.
So you're saying that bullshit is inspirational? So True!
Since when does the government have the right to tell you what is or is not appropriate? What, are you not capable of making that decision on your own?
On the one hand, you don't want to have any responsibility, whatsoever, for what your neighbor does. But on the other hand, you don't want government to have any of that responsibility, either?
Society is only as good as its members. If a society lets its membership run amok then it becomes an amok society. If that society lets its member decay into lazy fatigue, it becomes a lazy, fatigued society.
Government is there to maintain a standard of society which represents what the majority of the members of that society want. Sure, the world wants Non-Offensive Television? Why else would there be an FCC?
My point, though, is that there is a fairly sizeable portion of the population for whom Television, and "TV culture" is a dispicable out of control cult, which needs to be reigned in...
Decadence? What is decadent about censorship?
It doesn't produce anything, it only decays something.
; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --
Some have made this point, but if I burn some noxious substance in a public park, or blast "music" like the FBI used againt Noriega and the Branch Davidians, most here wouldn't suggest I should have the freedom to do that.
And I haven't seen a massive outpouring of civil rights for smokers. I don't smoke but it is now worse than apartheid. People will cough from 50 feet upwind - and you call people who want to take responsibility for their own children prudish?
If you want to subscribe to the SewageVision cable channel, go ahead. But you know what you are getting.
Also, I don't see any of the geeks here wanting to repeal the Pure Food and Drug act, which is merely truth in labeling. If something is labeled as a "family" show, it should not contain obscenity. If broadcasters simply want to label everything including game shows PG-13 or worse, they are free to, but then they will be turned off (moreso than they already are).
Broadcasters can't have it both ways - they want the public airwaves, but want to turn it into a marketing sex-fair. They want to label things as family fare, but then show and talk obscenely.