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Re: Clearly those Canadians are concerned about censorship...
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Thu, 8 Apr 2004 18:01:47 GMT
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Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
> > 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.
That's a local thing - I've heard songs in CA and realized for the first time that
they were *NOT* recorded with silence or a bleep during obvious obscenity.
Now that I moved out of CA, I get to hear silence again ;-)
--
Tom Stangl
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