FCC Report - TV Violence Should be Regulated

Posted by Zonk on Friday February 16, 2007 @11:13PM from the moving-picture-tubes-made-me-do-it dept.

tanman writes "CNN reports that a draft FCC report circulating on Capitol Hill 'suggests Congress could craft a law that would let the agency regulate violent programming much like it regulates sexual content and profanity — by barring it from being aired during hours when children may be watching' The article goes on to quote from studies showing a link between violent imagery and violence in life, and discusses the 'huge grey areas' that could result from ill-defined concepts of excessive violence." Government as Nanny, or cracking down on an excessive entertainment culture? Which side of this do you find yourself on?

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Re:Limit or Ban? by Watson+Ladd · 2007-02-17 00:34 · Score: 5, Informative

The FCC is not illegal. The airwaves are a public resource, and the goverment can make any rules they want about the type of content that can be distributed over them.

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