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The Coming Fight Over TV Violence
gollum123 writes "Time reports the guardians of decency are warning about new trouble, with a capital T, which rhymes with V, which stands for violence. The Parents Television Council (PTC), the group at the vanguard of the TV-sex wars, has lately focused on prime-time blood: power-tool torture on 24, serial killing on Criminal Minds, vivisection on Heroes. And the FCC has prepared a draft report suggesting that Congress authorize it to regulate broadcast violence, as it now does obscenity, and possibly force cable companies to let subscribers opt out of paying for channels that run brutal content. In short, torture is the new sex. Jack Bauer is the new Janet Jackson."
Just let Jack Bauer torture some legislators into voting no.
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If the the coming fight over TV violence is violent, will we be allowed to see it?
Next up: The coming orgy over TV sex, and the coming euphoria over TV drug use!
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Nine-year-olds have a right to turn on the teevee and watch people's eyeballs getting removed with power tools. Any attempt to restrict this important media content is a grave assault on our freedoms.
Information wants to be free!
Yeah right! Next thing you know people will stop killing each other and have sex (and children). We can't allow that to happen! Won't anybody think of the children???
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Reminds me of when the pool hall was being built, we good River City folk had to band together and get that stopped.
It's not that different in your country. In fact I'm not from the USA either, but please, tell me what country does not censor anything on TV, the press or anywhere else.
Why, in the country of Slashdotia, of course!
Slashdotia, where the email is encrypted and spam is censored, but the TV is broadcast in the free and clear, with violence and boobies for all!
Slashdotia, where the minimum salary for perl haxors is eighty thou., and hiring Indian programmers is strictly prohibited!
Slashdotia, legendary home of untainted, uncorrupted, open-sourced elections, in which Democrats are elected every time!
Slashdotia, how I miss thee!
All I got was:
The ****** ***** over ** ********
I tried to post the entire article censored, but slashdot's "lameness filter" wouldn't let me. Honestly! I think that says it all.
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They're doing this out of courtesy. Imagine you're a porn-starved 13 year old watching CSI when they show the mutilated, tortured female body's naughty bits.
That is going to be some awkward mastrubation.