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FCC Looks Into Regulating Violence on TV
The Importance of writes "The FCC's regulation of indecent and profane speech has gotten a lot of attention recently. Now, the FCC is considering getting into the business of regulating violence on television (broadcast and cable/satellite). This isn't unexpected, because the House Commerce Committee ordered the FCC to conduct the study. Notice of Inquiry [PDF] [TXT]. Somehow, I don't think the FCC is going to tell Congress there is nothing they can do about violence on TV."
There was a report issued in 2002 to determine whether the FCC had jurisdiction over webcasts (internet TV and the like) and whether or not their current TV regulations would apply. It's pretty interesting and their conclusions are somewhat alarming (especially if you oppose regulation on the internet), but it appears not much came of it. You can read the report here: DOC, PDF, or TXT.
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"Caffeine is the greatest lubricant ever created." -ESR
Horrific, deplorable violence is OK as long as people don't say any naughty words
The Raven
It was Puritan society that established the first European foothold on this Continent. Are you surprised at how prudish American culture is? Why, it's an institution in the United States.
Guess what, mothers of America? Your child has already seen and probably performed many of the things you feel so abhorent. I mean how many kids are bussed to the local museum to see statues, paintings, and [gasp] dare I say nudity? And those Bible stories? Hey, didn't Abraham schtoop his maid and was blessed for it? That's Sunday school 101.
-- Posted from my parent's basement
However, almost every single teenager in the world is a raging ball of hormones, and seeing T&A on TV only makes them hornier.
In other words, lots of kids will replicate sexual behaviour they see in movies and on TV, but not many will replicate the violent behaviour they observe.
Have you seen the nudity that is broadcast in a lot of European countries? They show breasts in commercials, do they have a massive teenage pregnancy problem? No they don't.
Do you think that it could be possible that restricting nudity could have the opposite effect in controlling teenage pregnancies?
If I point out that you are incorrect, making me a foe does not make you any more correct.
To be historically accurate, the American attitudes most often called "puritanical" actually had their origin much later, in the Victorian era. Puritanism itself was not, ultimately, that influential in American life--it'd been basically drowned out by secular elements before the Revolutionary War.
Oper on the Nightstar
That quote seems to be fictitious.