azumanga said:
mnradiofan said:
No, actually, the study looks at BLEEPED words rising, which is completely LEGAL by FCC standards. The PTC is lobbying to count BLEEPS as curses towards violations.
Get it now? And if a station isn't even allowed to have a bleeped word be part of the broadcast, then that would be a violation of rights.
No doubt the PTC won't be happy until
all television worldwide -- aerial, cable, satellite, imported, DVD, etc. -- is completely and entirely silent and uncaptioned, and produced in a way that it cannot be remotely interpreted. And the PTC would mandate that the FCC regulate all forms of communication, including recordings and the printed word.
Realistically, there's no pleasing the PTC -- they want nothing less than totalitarian, government censorship.
See, and that's the funniest part of it all. All the PTC will ever succeed in doing is killing off broadcast television. We are already witnessing it. When people are given a choice between highly censored broadcast TV, and say, FX or HBO, those who can afford it are flocking to that.
Then, when or if the PTC succeeds in censoring that, they will just flock to the internet. If they succeed in blocking that, then there will be something else. Even today, there are so many more threats than TV that are TONS worse for Little Johnny, yet they focus on TV. If Johnny wants to hear naughty language and see boobs, all he has to do is go on this little invention called The Internet, and it's open season. And the more you try to block it, the more Johnny's gonna want to see it, thats just human nature.
When I was a kid, my parents had VERY strict rules on TV watching. They would watch every show before we were allowed to watch it, and we weren't allowed to have TV's in our rooms. Because of this, I didn't see shows like Roseanne, Married with Children, The Simpsons, etc until I was 18. Of course, I wanted to watch them more than any other show, and when I was able to sneak away to a friends house, thats the only thing that was on the TV, but I digress.
My main point is that if you are really that uptight about your kids being kept away from "naughty language", then you need to be a parent and:
1. Only have one computer in the house, and lock it down with something like OpenDNS, to keep your kids off the internet
2. Set the parental controls on your TV, and again, only have one of them.
3. Take your kids out of public schools and put them into private schools, or home school them. You'd really have to home-school them to keep them away from it.
4. Know your kids friends, parents of those friends, and parents of anyone else that the friends of your children may know, to make sure they don't use dirty language in their households either. Better yet, prohibit your children from having friends, thats probably the safest bet. Because not everyone thinks like you do, and not every parent has a problem with the words you do.
We are in a free country, and in a free country, once something is "out of the bag" it is extremely hard to control. This is why I've always argued that people who really care shouldn't live in America, they should live in a country where government really DOES control your speech. Then, and only then, are you going to have moral purity.
Anyone else here think the PTC is better suited for say, China?
