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"Sensationalized Cruelty": FCC Complaints Regarding Game of Thrones
v3rgEz writes: As a cable channel, the FCC has little to no jurisdiction over HBO's content. That doesn't stop people from complaining to them about them, however, and after a FOIA request, the FCC released numerous complaints regarding the network's Game of Thrones. While there were the usual and expected lamentations about 'open homosexual sex acts,' other users saw Game of Thrones as a flashpoint in the war of Net Neutrality.
FCC should just reply with the following: Thank you for your concern, We have read your complaint and come to a solution, if you don't like it just don't watch it. Regards, FCC
Get over it! If you don't like it, don't watch it. And if you have children, it is YOUR OWN FAULT if you allow them access. And if you didn't KNOW it was going to offend you- get a life and read reviews first.
Yeesh
Let's get pedophilia, incest, multiple non-abrahamic religions, polytheism, zombies, ghouls, various fantasy figures, idol worship and paganism off the TVs in America, and back into the White House, where it belongs!
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
It's on a cable network you have to pay to get, it's not on OTA broadcast networks, so if you don't like it, then don't watch it, but for fuck's sake stop complaining, and stop trying to impose your spiritual/religious/whatever values on the rest of the world!
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
It's funny because most of those things are also in the Bible, and yet no one (to the best of my knowledge) has ever made a serious campaign to ban the Bible.
In fact, Game of Thrones is arguably even less depraved that what is going on right now in the real world in any number of places. South Sudan, Syria and North Korea just off the top of my head. Compared to the perps running amok in those places, the horrible people depicted in Game of Thrones are just a bunch of lovable kittens.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
You beat me to it. Actually it's dangling participle twice over, as "HBO's content" is also not "a cable channel". So maybe I'd rewrite it as:
"As HBO is a cable channel, the FCC has little to no jurisdiction over its content."
Of course, if you have jurisdiction over a cable channel then you also have jurisdiction over its sensationalized content.
Pedophilia, incest, multiple non-abrahamic religions, polytheism, zombies, ghouls, various fantasy figures, idol worship, paganism...
All of those things are found throughout the Old Testament. While Jahweh seems to get his knickers in a twist over idol worship, paganism and the like, He seems to be down with pedophilia, incest, rape, pillage, slavery, torture, genocide, etc. In addition there are many spectral figures, angels, demons and the like. Other than the religion, there's nothing in GOT that the average Solomonic Era soldier wouldn't recognize. It looks even more like the Middle Ages of the Crusaders and the Teutonic Knights. I don't see a lot of difference between the Red God and the Auto da Fe of the Inquisition.
If we're going to start banning things for bad taste and hate speech, can we start with CBN and the 700 Club?
Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
It's funny because most of those things are also in the Bible, and yet no one (to the best of my knowledge) has ever made a serious campaign to ban the Bible.
Does Jesus count as a zombie?
I suppose the eating of body and blood in some churches is a bit of a giveaway...
Pedophilia, incest, multiple non-abrahamic religions, polytheism, zombies, ghouls, various fantasy figures, idol worship, paganism...
I'm pretty sure most of that can be found in the bible.
Things I've seen in Game Of Thrones is on the same level or more tame than things I've read in books. So why aren't the "moral majority" up in arms about about that?
Well because books dont get the same media coverage and more likely, these people dont read.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
In other words, competition.
Since Jesus never actually existed, this is a moot point.
As odd as it may seem, there is no mention of Jesus at all by any of his pagan contemporaries. There are no birth records, no trial transcripts, no death certificates; there are no expressions of interest, no heated slanders, no passing references – nothing.
There's not a single verse, poem, story, carving, sculpture, painting or drawing of him from the time period in which he supposedly lived. Absolutely nothing. Pretty strange considering all of the amazing miracles he was supposed to have performed. You'd think someone would have made even just a passing mention of all this stuff, but nope, not a word.
In fact, if we broaden our field of concern to the years after his death – even if we include the entire first century of the Common Era – there is not so much as a solitary reference to Jesus in any non-Christian, non-Jewish source of any kind.
We do have a large number of documents from the time – the writings of poets, philosophers, historians, scientists, and government officials, for example, not to mention the large collection of surviving inscriptions on stone and private letters and legal documents on papyrus. In none of this vast array of surviving writings is Jesus’ name ever so much as mentioned, not once.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...