Reply #13: FCC chair to cable and satellite TV: Clean up your act or else

[Sandpiper]

Grrrrrrr!!!!!

I'm so sick of the prudes and puritans trying to sanitize what adults in this country can see to "protect the cheeeeldren."

Cable is a SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE!!! If you don't like it, DON'T FUCKING BUY IT!!! It's just that simple.

Fuck censorship!

:grr:


By Jennifer C. Kerr
ASSOCIATED PRESS

2:19 p.m. November 29, 2005

WASHINGTON – Sexed-up, profanity-laced shows on cable and satellite TV should be for adult eyes only, and providers must do more to shield children or could find themselves facing indecency fines, the nation's top communications regulator says.

"Parents need better and more tools to help them navigate the entertainment waters, particularly on cable and satellite TV," Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin told Congress on Tuesday.

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"You can always turn the television off and of course block the channels you don't want," he said, "but why should you have to?"

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http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/20051129-1419-tvindecency.html