President Bush signs law increasing indency fines
Yesterday, President Bush signed a bill into law that boosts the FCC indecency fines up from $32,500 to as much as $325,000 per violation. The law restricts television and radio broadcasters from broadcasting obscene and indecent material between 6pm to 10pm. The law does not apply to cable or satellite services.
What prompted this law signing by the President was the Jackson "wardrobe malfuction" incident on Superbowl few years ago and ever since then the Parents Television Council has been pushing the FCC to increase the fines to crack down any broadcasters who dare to broadcast any indecent and obscenes material.
Frankly, I find this kind of censorship quite ridiculous. It just pisses me off. If you don't like what you are watching, then don't watch it. If you are concerned about what children are watching, it is YOUR responsibility to control what your children are watching on TV. It just never ceases to amaze me that people keep on complaining when there are technology provided to control what can be watched on TV (v-chips, password lock, etc) -- USE it! It seems like to me that you folks can not be bothered to take responsibility and rather put it on the government. Come on, the government has much more important things to worry about than this! Frankly, people, even children, in Europe are much more grown-up about things like this on TV that you Conversative, stupid, immature Americans are!
If I ever do have children, which I never will, and one of them saw the boob-flashing incident on Superbowl and decides to make a fuss out of it, I'd say to this child, "It's not like you have never seen a boob. It's just a boob, so get over it!" Or even better, if this child laughs at the incident, I will laugh with him. Frankly, I find the "wardrobe malfunction" incident rather funny.
With all this censorship going on and teaching our children that things like that are "wrong" and "offensive", you all are just making the US into a more tense society -- people always being so tense. Ever wonder why Europeans appear much more laid back than we are and enjoying their lives than we are with our lives?
What prompted this law signing by the President was the Jackson "wardrobe malfuction" incident on Superbowl few years ago and ever since then the Parents Television Council has been pushing the FCC to increase the fines to crack down any broadcasters who dare to broadcast any indecent and obscenes material.
Frankly, I find this kind of censorship quite ridiculous. It just pisses me off. If you don't like what you are watching, then don't watch it. If you are concerned about what children are watching, it is YOUR responsibility to control what your children are watching on TV. It just never ceases to amaze me that people keep on complaining when there are technology provided to control what can be watched on TV (v-chips, password lock, etc) -- USE it! It seems like to me that you folks can not be bothered to take responsibility and rather put it on the government. Come on, the government has much more important things to worry about than this! Frankly, people, even children, in Europe are much more grown-up about things like this on TV that you Conversative, stupid, immature Americans are!
If I ever do have children, which I never will, and one of them saw the boob-flashing incident on Superbowl and decides to make a fuss out of it, I'd say to this child, "It's not like you have never seen a boob. It's just a boob, so get over it!" Or even better, if this child laughs at the incident, I will laugh with him. Frankly, I find the "wardrobe malfunction" incident rather funny.
With all this censorship going on and teaching our children that things like that are "wrong" and "offensive", you all are just making the US into a more tense society -- people always being so tense. Ever wonder why Europeans appear much more laid back than we are and enjoying their lives than we are with our lives?
posted by Unknown at 5:23 PM
1 Comments:
couldn't have said it better! :-)
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