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Re: Clearly those Canadians are concerned about censorship...
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Thu, 8 Apr 2004 17:23:59 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys wrote:
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And we’re back to Howard Stern--if you don’t like what he has to say (and I
don’t) then for the love of freedom of choice, turn the radio station.
As far as censorship goes--to that old arguement ‘Fire!’ in a crowded theatre
is wrong (unless there really is a fire ;) ) but curtailing the yelling of
‘fire!’ isn’t censorship, it’s a safety issue and falls out of the domain of
censorship and into the domain of personal fredom and responsibility--like
the right to swing my arm until it contacts your nose. Janet didn’t harm
anyone with her covered nipple, nor does Stern harm anyone with his daily
antics.
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One knows what to expect on the Howard Stern show. I don’t have a problem with
his show, beyond that I think it is stOOpid. One knows what to expect at the
Super Bowl, and that is certainly not bare breast.
And you keep saying “covered nipple” - it wasn’t (well, maybe from the side to
some degree).
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I think it’s silly that people got into a furor over a covered nipple.
Especially in a country that prides itself as freedom loving. If you wish to
read ‘boasting’ into my ‘Hey, isn’t this little thing that Canadians are
doing good ‘nuff for debate?’ then I’ll read ‘hypocritical’ into ‘hey, we
believe in the first ammendment except when we don’t like what we hear or
see’.
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It’s “public airwaves”, not “pubic”. :-)
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Now we fully agree--but what’s this knocking on the door? Oh look, it’s the
FCC. Something about the letter F screams, oh I don’t know, Federal or
something. Sounds like governement intervention to me. And once you play
that card, then you start the ‘big brother’ scenario--if I say this on the
air, I may get fined--therefore I will not say that on the air.’ The gov’t
can sit back and say, “Well, we didn’t censor anything!” but in a way they
did by the thought of the threat. And that’s a very difficult hill to get
over. How can the political debaters feel ‘free’ enough to point out
perceived flaws in the system if they feel the system will punish them? It
starts with the Sterns, et al, but the precident is then made.
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Radio can’t let Howard Stern say the F word, but The Who can in a song. Never
hear it blipped out or censored. Now there’s hypocrisy.
-->Bruce<--
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