Should the Public Airwaves be More or Less Censored?

I'll sum up my position, and we can go from there.You also may be right, I amy not be aware of what I am advocating, but I am sure I will learn here, and sort it out.But I do know one thing, and that is, it is not appropiate to show someones head being blown off, in full detail on a Sunday afternoon during a basketball game commercial break.I also saw another commercial today that I wasn't to happy about, and that is for desperate housewifes, a show that glamorizes women cheating on their husbands, and the commercial contained sexual content, that I feel is not appropiate for my youngest one yet. Again during a basketball game.I also do not wish to apply restrictions concerning real material. As a matter of fact, I think it is a shear joke that the news will not show real people getting killed, yet in fiction we can watch it over and over.I only feel that it is fiction that needs the censorship, not real stuff.I also included things like televangelist who scam, and news programs that put together stories to make them appear to be something different than the truth.Since it is our elected government (FCC) that makes the rules concerning this, I feel we all have a say it what it should be.

Dr.Jones, I consider you a smart guy, can't you figure out for yourself why this not a practicle thing to do? In case you haven't noticed, the government is very busy protecting us from ourselves. And since there are way too many irrisposible parnets these days, I think it's not a bad idea. I can still go to the video store, or PPV, and rent whatever content I want. But that's my whole point, I am not a free as you say. Why are my kids seeing r rated commercials during a g rated basketball game?

That's not what I said. I am saying that the rating of the commercial should at least equal the program being watched.

I am not limiting it to just that, but those are some examples.
Why should it be legal to be lied to on TV? As an ameture radio operater, and an old CB'r who used to come over his neighbors TV sets, I often asked myself the same question.

Thanks Percy
I am aware of that stuff already, but it doesn't always apply. Then you can't watch anything live. Plus it costs me extra for those options.
But I appreciate the advice.It just sucks that we live in a world like this. What about the kids that aren't being supervised by an responsible parent? Well last Sunday, during a game, I mentioned that desperate housewives commercial, where a "desperate housewife" gets her clothes torn off by a man down to her lingere. I don't know what rating that falls under, but it sure ain't G.I can make note of next time I see one, and be more specific. I am sure I won't have to wait long.

Sounds like you've given up, or given in. I think it's time for a revolution. Maybe jar was right, this country will be split into 4. Listen, that is a BS statement. I am 41 years old, and there is a big difference as to how kids act today, and at a younger age, and the words and ideas coming out of their mouths, are way different than when I was a kid. That's damage enough. hehe I don't get that. Like I said, I have no problem if what the person is speaking is real. There is no need to sensor the truth. But lies should be sensored, and illegal. Fiction should be sensored because not all children are monitered well enough, and you will never change that. Your kind of blending issues, and accusing me falsely.

Well then we should get rid of helmet laws, speed limits, local and state building codes, legalize all drugs, drinking age, smoking age, and make all stop signs with white trim around the edges optional.

Believe me, I started that at a very youg age, probably about 5. They must know who and where they cannot be touched, etc. Yea well thats my point.

Yes, fiction is a wonderful thing, and a very big part of my life, but what is the purpose in letting a 5 year old see a movie like nightmare on elm st.?

I guess you just can't see how that affects you. Um, yes I am. But I am not being ignorant. I am well aware of how the government tries to protect us from ourselves.

I guess you can't see how that affects you either...

Well they do in a sense. We are not talking about freedom of speech here, we are talking about what goes over the public, and cable television, that children have easy access to.I am in no way advocating that freedom of speech be regulated. The government owns the airwaves, and that is reality right now.Since our governement does such a tremendous job of protecting ourselves, from ourselves, then that includes what goes out over the airwaves, when it comes to things that can be readily be seen by children.I equivocate what people are saying here about parents being responsible for what thier children watch, to good Christians being responsible for what bad Christians do. I find it hypocritical, by the posters in this forum.

We are talking about children here, not the entire general p

Take a look at how freedom of speech originated.You must take into account the spirit of that consitutional law.Freedom of Speech was not originated so that people can freely offend each other, it was originated so that people make legally speak out against government, and things in general that were hurting them.Freedom of speech has stipulations, like the miller test, and the hicklin test.

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The Hicklin test is a legal concept stemming from the English case R. v. Hicklin (1868), LR 3 QB 360, in English Common Law.

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Congress can outlaw anything that, "deprives and corrupts those whose minds are open to such immoral influences and into whose hands a publication of this sort might fall." (i.e. children)

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Since it's not a guarantee that all children will be supervised, then it is entirely probably (if not 100%) that children will get to see something offensive to them before a given age.Even if they were supervised, sometimes you just can't shut the TV off fast enough.I don't get you ppl. It's ok to have an abortion when the birth control fails. What we goona do when the V-chip fails, or the TV can't be shut off fast enough? Extract the childrens brains out?Ah, but don't worry, in a few more years there will memory earsing devices, like a metal strainer attached to a kids head. We will have nirvana, even if it has to be. Well I gotta give you a star. Very few people recognize that I am actually in the middle about most issues. Good catch. I have the ability (God given) to be able to see both sides of the fence in most circumstances, limited by my knowledge.Believe me, nobody hates the way government controls us more than me, or do I want to take anyones freedom of speech away, I would rather be dead. But there is a real issue, that cannot be avoided, and the current solutions for it, just ain't workin brotha. I see the minds of our youth being corrupted at an early age, much earlier than when I was a kid. I am not putting all the blame on TV, but it is one step that maybe we can do something about.

Teletubbies offend me, especially that purple thing with the bag I don't want you to lose that right either. That all depends on the law.