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."

Comments

Re:How will the left behave?

[apathy maybe]

What the fuck? Are you on some strange drug or something?

I'm curious. On the one hand they claim to be defenders of freedom (freedom of speech too, one would suppose). On the other hand they keep condemning the use of torture. Let's see if they put their money where their mouth is and allow unregulated violence, torture, unregulated *everything* on TV. That's freedom. Anything else is hypocracy.
(Oh and please, right wing, the deregulation bit applies to you too)
One, I assume you are a yank (if not, then this doesn't necessarily apply), in which case your definition of left and right is fucked in the first place (if you want capitalism, you are to the right, no matter how big a government you want).
Two, being for freedom automatically means being against torture. Talking as if the two are somehow opposed is stupid. It is more likely the conservative and puritans who are going to be opposed to freedom and support torture.
Third, I support no censorship, I think that any thing should be allowed on TV, radio etc. With however, a few restrictions (oh noes, he's being hypocritical 'cause he just said he supported no censorship, but now he is talking about censoring shit). The first is, no platform for fascists and other scum. Any media *I* control will not allow intolerance. The second has to do with how the violence or whatever is filmed. If it is actual real killing or violence (intended to be fiction), or real child molestation (rather then computer graphics or similar) then I also oppose that.

What it comes down to really though is this, I'm not about to tell you what to do with your bit of media (well, unless you are a capitalist scum, in which case I would say, "Hand it over fucker. This is now the people's media", but ignoring such cases ...).

Surely Jack Bauer is the new....

[Dogtanian]

....Lynndie England?