!FUCK THE FCC!

[Space Cataz]

The FCC is really pissing me off, sex, violence, and profanity is what makes TV, TV.

 

[rewep]

Yeah, God forbid there be an organization out there that actually cares about the subject matter impressionable young minds are subjected to.

 

[dascoot]

Seriously.. I mean, why should parents be bothered to decide what they want their kids to be exposed to? We can all rest easy knowing someone else is making our decisions for us.

 

[cultclassic]

Hey Melissa! Where have you been?

 

[dascoot]

Seething.

And now I'm gone again. *poof*

 

[a_iver]

no

 

[Space Cataz]

These days people can buy things like the V-Chip.
And people with things like Comcast Digital Cable can just block channels.

Let the parents be responsible for what their children watch!

 

[sickboy]

kids have been known to override parental blocks and the v-chip, so what happens then?
why do you care so much about what other people can or can not watch anyway?
did the fcc cause the cancellation of a show you liked?

 

[a_iver]

I think there's a lot more influence here, than what is coming directly from the tv. The tv doesn't only influence the way children are taught, but it also influences the actions of their parents, friends, cousins, brothers and sisters, and pretty much everyone they know. It may be only a little bit per person, but over time it can dramatically change the way our society acts. Not everyone believes in what I do, but Jesus himself was subject to the masses.

Anyways it takes a lot more than the parents to raise a child, it takes a community, like the saying says. I personally support any decisions made by any one individual to raise children more responsibly. I think having a big government organization may not be the best way to regulate what's best for us, and could be dangerous like people say, but I think it's better than chaos. Besides that, these foreigners we like to call the government, are also made up of individuals, and I think it's awesome that the individuals that make the decisions, are the ones in that position because they are doing what they feel is right. Even in opposition to feeding to the growing horde of self-righteous people who act (whether knowingly or unknowingly) according to what they are told by everybody else. Happy Easter

 

[Bloodlessr]

No. Parents are responsible for their kids, no one else.

 

[cultclassic]

Originally posted by a_iver@Apr 15 2006, 12:37 PM
I think there's a lot more influence here, than what is coming directly from the tv. The tv doesn't only influence the way children are taught, but it also influences the actions of their parents, friends, cousins, brothers and sisters, and pretty much everyone they know.

I agree. TV has great influence on everybody....
But, how does FCC decide which of those influences should be allowed?

I think having a big government organization may not be the best way to regulate what's best for us, and could be dangerous like people say, but I think it's better than chaos.

THAT, I disagree. I'd much prefer chaos than organized thought. Much of the human kind's greatest ideas came from chaos. Chaos allows all ideas, so that the best ones may be filtered out of the rest. When THAT is regulated, in the name of order, or decency, or religion, we'd be suppressing ideas before they get to an open forum. IMHO Jesus Christ himself was a rebel, who was against what the society allowed what should be the norm. People where NOT allowed to claim to be the king, because, the KING SAID SO! If FCC existed in those days, it'd be called KCC, and I'm sure they'd fine him for preaching from the town square...I think that's a frightening situation for any society...

doing what they feel is right

"doing what you feel is right" is ok, as long as it does'nt involve preventing somebody else from doing, OR, in this case, SAYING, "what THEY feel is right"...THAT's the issue here...

Something along the lines of, "Your right to swing your fist stops where my nose starts".

I find Howard Stern a lecherus and unfunny old man with issues about his looks and penis. So I go around telling people not to listen to him. It'd be criminal to try to stop him from saying what he has to say. That's what the FCC did to him, by fining him. Because, he was on free-air, where an 8 year old could listen to him. Well, we'd be in a pretty bad shape if all air-time has to be tailored for an 8 year old...


Happy Easter!

 

[a_iver]

Originally posted by cultclassic+Apr 15 2006, 03:53 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (cultclassic @ Apr 15 2006, 03:53 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-a_iver@Apr 15 2006, 12:37 PM
I think there's a lot more influence here, than what is coming directly from the tv. The tv doesn't only influence the way children are taught, but it also influences the actions of their parents, friends, cousins, brothers and sisters, and pretty much everyone they know.

I agree. TV has great influence on everybody....
But, how does FCC decide which of those influences should be allowed?

I think having a big government organization may not be the best way to regulate what's best for us, and could be dangerous like people say, but I think it's better than chaos.

THAT, I disagree. I'd much prefer chaos than organized thought. Much of the human kind's greatest ideas came from chaos. Chaos allows all ideas, so that the best ones may be filtered out of the rest. When THAT is regulated, in the name of order, or decency, or religion, we'd be suppressing ideas before they get to an open forum. IMHO Jesus Christ himself was a rebel, who was against what the society allowed what should be the norm. People where NOT allowed to claim to be the king, because, the KING SAID SO! If FCC existed in those days, it'd be called KCC, and I'm sure they'd fine him for preaching from the town square...I think that's a frightening situation for any society...
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The thing is, is that they're not preventing ideas from happening, or from religions to be spread, as far as I know. If they were, I would agree. What it is preventing is mass desensitization to sex, violence, and profanity. If those things were helpful to further developing our culture it would be different.

doing what they feel is right

"doing what you feel is right" is ok, as long as it does'nt involve preventing somebody else from doing, OR, in this case, SAYING, "what THEY feel is right"...THAT's the issue here...

Saying what you want/saying what will sell, is a very different thing from saying what you feel is right. Do people feel that it's for the good of mankind to broadcast to millions of people pornography, and murder, and how to build bombs on tv? Should that be restricted?

Because, he was on free-air, where an 8 year old could listen to him. Well, we'd be in a pretty bad shape if all air-time has to be tailored for an 8 year old...

There is also a difference between tailoring television programming for an 8 year old and protecting him.

 

[andy]

TV should just not exist. Problem solved.

Go see plays.

 

[a_iver]

But what about Family Guy?

 

[andy]

Family Guy can be a play.

Problem solved.

 

[a_iver]

Noooooo

 

[rewep]

The internet can raise our children. There's nothing wrong or harmful about the internet.

 

[Bloodlessr]

BARELY LEGAL TEENS XXX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[SiDe]

Originally posted by rewep@Apr 16 2006, 11:36 AM
The internet can raise our children. There's nothing wrong or harmful about the internet.

HAHAHAHA!

And it was invented by Al Gore. How much more family friendly can you get?

and hell kids have to learn about barely legal teens sooner or later.

 

[Bloodlessr]

Al Gore invented a bucket for me to poop in and then he invented a ladder that I could stand on to dump the poop on his head.