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Originally posted by OldJeff@Feb 26 2004, 05:19 AM
The FCC should be disbanded, let people decide for themselves what is offensive to them.
Anyone not seeing this as a further erosion of free speech is an idiot.
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I like what your saying in concept, but the reality of it is this. And believe me when I say I hate to be the one to mention it BUT
You cannot allow 'free speech' to go unchecked. There are far to many things out there that can have negative repercussions. I will give just one example.
I am not a racist. I find the entire 'superiority' of any race to be so ridiculous that its amusing. I have formed my views over my entire life and base my opinions of people based
almost exclusively on their behavior. However, I know that my kids are both impressionable and that I cannot monitor them 24/7 nor would I want to. I respect their privacy to a degree and they deserve the same right I enjoyed by making my own informed judgments. I would be very upset to find my 14 year old boy listening to a radio station that was say sponsored by the KKK. Esp if they played the type of music he is very much into (Heavy Metal from the 70s *hard rock* through the 90s) and they put a bunch of anti-Semitic or black bashed in between their songs. I know that this would influence them. If my kids end up to be racists (knock on wood) I would at least want them to come to that conclusion from their own life experiences and not that of a toothless red neck broadcasting out of his trailer.
I hope that makes sense.
spaz