If it's unregulated there is absolutely no reason why they could not show a snuff film in the middle of the playschool kids TV hour.
Of course there is. The networks derive their revenue from their advertisers and those advertisers, by and large, are large corps that avoid controversy like the plague. The FCC does not regulate cable networks at all but you don't see snuff films on cable channels at any hour, let alone the middle of the day. Shows aimed at an adult audience like FX's The Shield are only shown after 9 or 10 PM.
The cable networks do a good enough job of self censoring and there's no LOGICAL reason why the broadcast networks can't do the same thing on there own. The reason we have the FCC sticking their noses in everything is because of religious types thinking they have the right to control what other people watch and parents who want to use thier televisions as a babysitter without having to pay attention to what their children are watching.
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If it's unregulated there is absolutely no reason why they could not show a snuff film in the middle of the playschool kids TV hour.
Of course there is. The networks derive their revenue from their advertisers and those advertisers, by and large, are large corps that avoid controversy like the plague. The FCC does not regulate cable networks at all but you don't see snuff films on cable channels at any hour, let alone the middle of the day. Shows aimed at an adult audience like FX's The Shield are only shown after 9 or 10 PM.
The cable networks do a good enough job of self censoring and there's no LOGICAL reason why the broadcast networks can't do the same thing on there own. The reason we have the FCC sticking their noses in everything is because of religious types thinking they have the right to control what other people watch and parents who want to use thier televisions as a babysitter without having to pay attention to what their children are watching.
I have paid for every single DVD I own.
Me too, every one.
Usually in spindles of 100.