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Attempt to Apply Decency Standards to Cable/Satellite Television

Posted by Zonk on from the i'm-paying-for-my-klingons-dangit dept.

bigtallmofo writes "Reuters is reporting that Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens (Senator from Alaska) is pushing for decency standards to apply to cable television and subscription satellite TV and radio. You may recall Senator Stevens for voting against a measure to criticize the FCC in 2003 for loosening its broadcast ownership restrictions. Maybe he thinks profanity provides an unfair advantage to his broadcast-company constituents?" We touched on this last year, in the attempt to apply decency standards to satellite radio.

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  1. Can I say "WTF"? by WhatAmIDoingHere · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Call it whatever you want, censorship is censorship.

    If you don't like what you see/hear, turn it off. Don't force your flavor of "decency" on other people.

    What happened to all these freedoms that terrorists are supposed to hate us for?

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  2. Re:My thoughts. by teamhasnoi · · Score: 1, Redundant
    I failed to notice a post blatantly similar to mine.

    Mods, please disable voting on my entry.

  3. Re:Better Solution by Anonymous+Cow+herd · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I thought this was already in place, with the V-Chip?

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