Khaless H. Klingon On A Crutch! FCC has gone INSANE, $500k Fine for Violent TV Shows!

[Greg B]

This has gone too damned far! You can steal an election, blow up innocent civilians, spread genetically altered foods that cause pancreatic cancer, but by cracky you don't fuck with a man's tv violence!

That's one critter too much fer skinnin'! That means no more westerns, Star Trek, boxing? I expect a collapse of the U.S. government by mid next year.

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http://worldnetdaily.com/news/articl...TICLE_ID=37503

MEDIA MATTERS
$500,000 fines
for violent TV?
Senate committee OKs measure to punish broadcasters, cable for more than obscenity

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Posted: March 9, 2004
5:00 p.m. Eastern



© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

A Senate panel approved legislation today that would ban "excessive or gratuitous violence" from all television programming between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. in order to protect children.

The unprecedented prohibition on violence ? affecting basic cable and satellite TV as well as broadcast channels ? was added in an amendment by Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., reported Television Week.

The bill, passed 23-0, would raise fines for indecent broadcasts to as much as $500,000.

It also would block Federal Communications Commission media-ownership deregulation from going into effect for up to a year in order to allow completion of a government study. The General Accounting Office survey seeks to find whether media ownership consolidation has spurred indecent programming.

Under the measure, the violence provisions would go into effect only if an FCC study first confirms V-chip technology and voluntary industry programming ratings are not effectively protecting children, Television Week said.

But Hollings insists the case already has been made.

"Monkey see, monkey do. Children will mimic what they see on TV," he said, according to Television Week. "I just couldn't stand by and do nothing."

The measure would subject basic cable and satellite TV programming to indecency oversight for the first time. But an amendment by Sen. John Breaux, D-La., to hold basic cable and satellite TV programming to the same indecency rules governing broadcast TV failed by a 12-11 vote.

As it stands, the bill would require a fine of up to $275,000 for a station's first indecent broadcast, $375,000 for a second and up to $500,000 for a third.

The FCC would have the option of doubling the fine if it determines "aggravating factors are present."

Any broadcaster violating the prohibitions three times also would be subject to proceedings by the FCC to have its license revoked.

Another amendment allows broadcasters to adopt a code establishing a two-hour period for family viewing in the evenings.

The National Cable & Telecommunications Association said it would oppose the anti-violence initiative.

"As the U.S. Supreme Court has found, the subscription nature of cable service and the ability of cable customers to block unwanted programming through the use of tools offered by local cable systems strongly differentiate cable from broadcasting, which is distributed free and unfiltered over the air," said Brian Dietz, an NCTA spokesman, in a statement.

Dietz said the cable industry is committed to increasing it efforts to educate customers about tools available to block unsuitable programming.

"From a First Amendment standpoint, we continue to believe that there are less intrusive means to accomplish the objectives sought by this amendment," he said.

[mardigras]

Latest violence calls future of NHL into question

[freeadultcontent]

Yippie another "we must protect our children" law. Ok your children because I do not have any. Yet of course I will still pay because I am an adult and everything I do has to take second fiddle to children.

We need a law to protect children from their parents, since the parents obviously can not make a fucking decesion for their own children, nor have the time to raise them.

What I like best is that they start with protect the children, then they refer to them as monkeys. Monkey see, monkey do. HAHAHAHA.

Ok I sure in the hell droped my share of anvils on my friends, placed piano wire in the door so when they ran through they sliced like cheese, and oh yeah I killed my share of indians.

[hoe_vender]

they need to get their panties out of a wod

[cherrylula]

I guess we will just have to hope for more war coverage to get our violence fix.

[Veterans Day]

OMG are you the new political newsman for GFY STFU

[Fletch XXX]

i wish them alll to be burned.

their families killed, and public crucifixions when this civil war is done.

We lost 600k of our brothers in the last civil war.

This may be one of the FEW TIMES AMERICA IS REALLY BEING THREATENED and our soldiers are sucking Bush cock????????//

get a clue you brainwashed sonsabitches.

Bush is playing chess with you, and when you get taken, you dont just get put off to the side.

you bleed and die on foreign soil.

and dont give me that shit about "defending our country"

you arentdefending anything but Bushs free reign.

You wanna fight for freedom?

VOTE WITH BULLETS

[jennym]

Why did this turn to Bush-bashing when this stupid shit seems to have been added by Democrats?

As a parent of a 9 year old, I must say this. Yes, there may be to much sex and violence on TV, and if I don't want my child to see it, *I* won't let her watch it! Parents need to take some fucking responsibility! The way I see it is this

"Wah wah, TV is so bad these days I can't just sit my kid in front of the TV and ignore them for hours on end! The govt. should do something to fix it!"

Ok I sure in the hell droped my share of anvils on my friends, placed piano wire in the door so when they ran through they sliced like cheese, and oh yeah I killed my share of indians.

Fucking exactly!!

[tbabe]

Someone should tell that that nowadays TV's come with an on/off button. Its not hard to use.

[Swiftone]

Sigh, fuck the US government. IM so sick of this "PROTECT THE CHILDREN" Bullshit. If you dont like what's on tv don't watch it, jesus its not exactly a difficult concept.

[KRL]

This is terribly horrifying news that our government has the ability to censor and fine companies performers for 1/2 a million dollars for indecent speech.

What the fuck is going on with these people in DC?

Our government has gone so far to the ultra right its getting beyond scary. Its like some kind of Nazi regime is in power catering to the wishes of a tiny majority of religious zealots.

I can really see this country going into a state of mass revolt soon if this conservatism baloney and invasion and destruction of our civil liberties continues.

[mardigras]

Everyone I have tried to spark interest in these recent events has basically replied, "Good, there's too much (fill-in-what-they-hate) on TV", "Nothing I can do about it", or "So what". Everyone I encouraged to vote told me later they "forgot" or were too busy. The little back door in the building where I vote was not even labeled this time, no signs in the parking lot, same around town for other precincts. They even handed me a ballot with the only choice of GWB for president and were aggravated when I gave it back for the Democratic form (they had the Republican sign-in table set up where the Democratic has been for as long as I've been old enough to vote). My precinct is several thousand and includes a major section of our town's commercial district. Including myself, 11 people from this precinct voted.

We who care on messageboards are a "lunatic fringe". John Q. Public doesn't give a shit and won't until it is too late for something he enjoys.

[reynold]

We just need to hope for the best.

[Roger]

quick find him another war and more people to "liberate" before he starts "liberating" the US instead.

We need enemies and we need them now.

[BradM]

Originally posted by freeadultcontent
Yippie another "we must protect our children" law. Ok your children because I do not have any. Yet of course I will still pay because I am an adult and everything I do has to take second fiddle to children.

We need a law to protect children from their parents, since the parents obviously can not make a fucking decesion for their own children, nor have the time to raise them.

What I like best is that they start with protect the children, then they refer to them as monkeys. Monkey see, monkey do. HAHAHAHA.

Ok I sure in the hell droped my share of anvils on my friends, placed piano wire in the door so when they ran through they sliced like cheese, and oh yeah I killed my share of indians.

He said it best my friends.
Shitty parents at the root of it all.

[cherrylula]

Originally posted by KRL
This is terribly horrifying news that our government has the ability to censor and fine companies performers for 1/2 a million dollars for indecent speech.

What the fuck is going on with these people in DC?

Our government has gone so far to the ultra right its getting beyond scary. Its like some kind of Nazi regime is in power catering to the wishes of a tiny majority of religious zealots.

I can really see this country going into a state of mass revolt soon if this conservatism baloney and invasion and destruction of our civil liberties continues.

Agreed. I don't even know anyone who has the same conservative views as what the gov is trying to do. It is very disturbing.

[Roger]

This is going way too far. People better be worried.

[unconnected]

Hahaha, Khaless H Klingon.. very clever..

[reynold]

why don't they talk this over a cup
of hot cofee? :-D

[Quatermain]

There goes CSI. I liked that show.

[Mr.Fiction]

Pro-censorship right wing assholes.

A big problem in America right now is that one party controls all branches of government so there is nothing to stop them when they start acting stupid.

There are stupid Democrats too, but even if every Democrat voted against these bills, they would still pass because Republicans control everything.