Radio is a marketplace and a medium. The FCC ought to control the medium, but not the marketpalce itself. In order to access the medium you have to have a device to access it, and you have to selectively tune your device to the broadcaster. The fact that you don't have a TV but it still affects your children is not the fault of the broadcaster...it is the fault of other parents.
The proper role of the FCC should be to prevent broadcast entities from creating interference and stealing the frequencies of other broadcasters. It does not and should not have a say in what actually goes onto those magical "public" airwaves. If content is indecent, don't listen to it. Believe it or not the marketplace will then determine what people want.
Don't like the fact that other parents let their children listen to such garbage? Maybe you should pay more attention to who your child spends time with. It is not the job of government to raise children, it is the job of parents. You can't control every single input that goes into a child's mind, and the attempt would be ultimately destructive to a child anyway. But no matter how you cut it, the proper way to combat indecency is to be decent yourself, and demonstrate to your children proper behavior by being a role model.
As long as radios have dials, you can always change the station. Noone forces anyone to listen to a radio show, or to watch a television for that matter. Moral zealots who feel that they need to undertake crusades like the one the FCC has been on ever since Boobgate(tm) always use the same excuse. Repeat after me:
"It's for the children!"
Of course, those children are all being forced to listen to the shows by their parents. Because Mommy has to listen to Lesbian Jeopardy on the morning trip to school, little Johnny is being exposed to morally objectionable material.
Noone is forcing children to see anything at all except for their own irresponsible guardians! People get upset because their child may have seen a breast, but they refuse to tell their home-schooled larvae that sex leads to babies, so they go out and get knocked up at 13. It's absurd.
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Please don't cue Janet Jackson. The FCC becomes far less sensible in her presence.
Specifically, do we know who rejected it and what company he works at now?
ping 127.0.0.1
Destination host unreachable.
Maybe I need to log in as root?
Do not pass Og, Do not collect two hundred Ollards!
Well, all we have to do now is find a way to keep the old troll from taking our firstborn sons. If you need to ask, you were deprived as a child.
Perhaps I would say stop surfing the net from the server, O Master of Secure Computing.
The proper role of the FCC should be to prevent broadcast entities from creating interference and stealing the frequencies of other broadcasters. It does not and should not have a say in what actually goes onto those magical "public" airwaves. If content is indecent, don't listen to it. Believe it or not the marketplace will then determine what people want.
Don't like the fact that other parents let their children listen to such garbage? Maybe you should pay more attention to who your child spends time with. It is not the job of government to raise children, it is the job of parents. You can't control every single input that goes into a child's mind, and the attempt would be ultimately destructive to a child anyway. But no matter how you cut it, the proper way to combat indecency is to be decent yourself, and demonstrate to your children proper behavior by being a role model.
"It's for the children!"
Of course, those children are all being forced to listen to the shows by their parents. Because Mommy has to listen to Lesbian Jeopardy on the morning trip to school, little Johnny is being exposed to morally objectionable material.
Noone is forcing children to see anything at all except for their own irresponsible guardians! People get upset because their child may have seen a breast, but they refuse to tell their home-schooled larvae that sex leads to babies, so they go out and get knocked up at 13. It's absurd.
...telling you what you can do with your package once you have received it. It just doesn't follow.