Should the Public Airwaves be More or Less Censored?

http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/obscene.htmlAny questions?

One question, been asked repeatedly in one form or another, but I'll give it a go anyway.Can you not see that there's a difference between obscenity and being offensive?

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Gosh, if it's so unnecessary, why was it the only thing in my post to which you responded?I'm gonna go ahead and guess the reason is, "I don't have an answer for anything else, but want to keep my moral indignation. It's fun."

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That happens in almost every traffic stop. Do you seriously believe I don't have the right to call a cop a "pig"? Do you seriously want the police to have the power to arrest people who don't tug their forelock and say "yassa, yassa"?Edited by Ringo, : Spellin'.

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The only speech that NEEDS to be protected is that which offends.The only speech worth protecting is that which offends.

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whoops that was supposed to be to rat and not you. I need to avoid posting when I'm sleepy.

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If it is illegal to offend people, why isn't Ann Coulter in jail?

I know everyone else here thinks I don't get that, but I do.
Good point jar.

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I know everyone else here thinks I don't get that, but I do.

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Maybe you get it now, but you sure didn't before.Otherwise, you wouldn't have thought is was illegal to offend others.

EVC forum, the only place on earth where people will debate with you, even when you agree.Being obscene is offensive.
Being offensive, can also turn into harrasment. These are the things I am talking about, but as usual, the point of my discussions always seem to drift away into obilivion. I am even wrong because I mis-spell words, that makes my point wrong. It's like a long running joke.

And the core of your stunning levels of wrongability in this thread is the fact that although obscenity is offensive, offending you does not make something obscene. Throw on the fact that obscenity has a specific legal standing, which you clearly don't get, having cited a fifty-year-dead test as if it was used today, and your justifications for censorship become incredibly, amazingly wrong. The TV's harrassing you?Has the toaster been laughing at you? Your original point, if I'm not mistaken, was that the content-censoring authority of the FCC is what should let you keep Desperate Housewives from airing ads during basketball games.I've been asking you why the FCC should be allowed to censor content for... wow, seven pages now. You still haven't answered. So screw it, if you don't want to stick to the point, let's make fun of your spelling.

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"I know some of you are going to say 'I did look it up, and that's not true.' That's 'cause you looked it up in a book. Next time, look it up in your gut."
-Stephen Colbert

trouble is, RR, that not everything offensive is obscene.that test you mentioned is for obscenity. not offensiveness.

This is just another instance of the rat's inability to admit that he was mistaken about something.In this case, he tries to cover it up by implying that he's really understood that offensive speech is protected all along.Of coourse, he's hoping we all forget that he repeatedly claimed that offending people is illegal...

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Rat, you may think that everyone is piling on here and being unneccessarily harsh with you.In this thread, you have repeatedly claimed one thing (offending people is illegal), and everybody has told you over and over that you are wrong (offensive speech is exactly what is protected).Now, you imply that what you have been claiming is actually the opposite to what you really know; that offensive speech is protected. You then give some kind of garbled response to my post conflating "obscene" with "offensive", even though you know perfectly well that "obscene" has a specific legal definition that is different from "offensive".The reason we are shoving all of this in your face is because you do this all the time.In fact, just about every discussion with you becomes an exercise in repeating to you what you claimed when you deny you ever said it, and you twisting and contorting in order to not have to admit that you were really wrong about something.THAT is why your threads are not focused. YOU keep going off on tangents to avoid admitting you've made an error.I don't know if you are doing it consciously, but that is what you are doing, nonetheless.