A call to arms... against Censorship
Theres this little sound that you here everywhere. While you are listeneing to your favorite song on the radio. While you are watching TV. It crawls under your skin and vibrates until you can't stand to hear it any longer. Then scarcely less than a second later (although it seems like ages) it stops. Its the beep. You know the beep. The one they use to take all the "profanity" out of whatever medium you happen to be paying attention to at the time.
Censorship doesn't stop there.
In Mississippi, Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was banned because the word "nigger" was used over 200 times (but everyone knows its because the book was making fun of them).
Censorship is only one of the plagues that are threatening our society. On February 1, 2004 Janet Jackson showed the world just how ugly she has gotten. But she really didn't show any more than you can see watching the "Girls Gone Wild" commercials on Comedy Central. Because of that "wardrobe malfunction" 'live' events are being delayed so they can censor anything that might happen again. CBS affiliates around the United States were fined by the FCC. And it caused a crackdown by the FCC. All of the sudden, radio stations won't play Pink Floyd's "Money" because it has the word 'shit' in it.
The FCC has decided to tell us, the free people of the United States of America, that we are too stupid to know what offends us. The FCC has decided to tell us that we don't know how to turn off something that is offending us. The FCC has decided to tell us what we can and can not see and hear. And we are letting them.
In our glorious age of over 900 channels of TV, dozens of local radio stations, the FCC has decided to say that we lack the ability to change the TV channel, or switch radio stations when something we think is offence comes on. THAT IS WRONG. If I want to watch "The Daily Show with John Stewart" without having to hear all the bleeps, then I am up the shit creek without a paddle. Never mind the fact that these are channels I have to pay for so I obviously want. Never mind the fact that I can always just push one button on the remote (or TV) and change the channel if I don't like it. If someone doesn't want to hear John Stewart say the word 'shit' than damn if anyone else can hear it too.
The sad thing is, we are letting them do this. WE MUST STOP! If you want a legal reason to kick censorship, cite the first amendment (although I have already established that the government has no idea what the bill of rights is) where it says, quite clearly, "Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press..."
There is your legal reason to fight. Censorship is more than just wrong. In these United States of America, it is ILLEGAL. All we have to do is fight it.
Censorship doesn't stop there.
In Mississippi, Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was banned because the word "nigger" was used over 200 times (but everyone knows its because the book was making fun of them).
Censorship is only one of the plagues that are threatening our society. On February 1, 2004 Janet Jackson showed the world just how ugly she has gotten. But she really didn't show any more than you can see watching the "Girls Gone Wild" commercials on Comedy Central. Because of that "wardrobe malfunction" 'live' events are being delayed so they can censor anything that might happen again. CBS affiliates around the United States were fined by the FCC. And it caused a crackdown by the FCC. All of the sudden, radio stations won't play Pink Floyd's "Money" because it has the word 'shit' in it.
The FCC has decided to tell us, the free people of the United States of America, that we are too stupid to know what offends us. The FCC has decided to tell us that we don't know how to turn off something that is offending us. The FCC has decided to tell us what we can and can not see and hear. And we are letting them.
In our glorious age of over 900 channels of TV, dozens of local radio stations, the FCC has decided to say that we lack the ability to change the TV channel, or switch radio stations when something we think is offence comes on. THAT IS WRONG. If I want to watch "The Daily Show with John Stewart" without having to hear all the bleeps, then I am up the shit creek without a paddle. Never mind the fact that these are channels I have to pay for so I obviously want. Never mind the fact that I can always just push one button on the remote (or TV) and change the channel if I don't like it. If someone doesn't want to hear John Stewart say the word 'shit' than damn if anyone else can hear it too.
The sad thing is, we are letting them do this. WE MUST STOP! If you want a legal reason to kick censorship, cite the first amendment (although I have already established that the government has no idea what the bill of rights is) where it says, quite clearly, "Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press..."
There is your legal reason to fight. Censorship is more than just wrong. In these United States of America, it is ILLEGAL. All we have to do is fight it.
posted by teh Mephisto at 12:52 AM
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