Fcc

Man I feel that the FCC needs to but out of our lives.They (politions)think they know what we need and want. They need to leave Howard Stern alone and all the other "Shock Jocks"alone. i know where to hear his show and if I dont like it or dont feel like hearing it I can change the station. And so can all those right wing religious freaks can too. I dont wanna hear about god all day long so I dont tune into the God station.Not that I hate god or any thing like that,Its that I dont want ppl telling me or others what they need or want.

Sorry about all the mistakes but I was in a hurry

[johnny861]

I think there needs to be a compromising reform...


So we've got an issue of concerned parents and concerned individualists...

Why not propose a revision of FCC regulations to provide regulatory system available to all by means of a voluntarily installed vchip for radios. Put the policies in place to allow concerned parents to program their radios and tvs against a newly revised and detailed rating system.

It's good for the parents, it doesn't infringe on the rights of individualists, because they are not required to install or buy devices for their equipment if they chose not too... they can listen to whatever they wish uninterrupted.

I think that would be a good compromise... there's more control for parents and concerned citizens to take advantage of and the freedom of speech advocates benefit by not having media personalities censored or pressured by the fcc to be sacked.

What are you alls thoughts on this?

[Hey Bubu]

Doesn't Cable or Sattelite TV do this already?

One can set passwords so that if a parents deems certain programs unsuitable for their children, they can lock it out.


I don't know how that would work with Radios though.

[johnny861]

Originally posted by TypeH
Doesn't Cable or Sattelite TV do this already?

One can set passwords so that if a parents deems certain programs unsuitable for their children, they can lock it out.


I don't know how that would work with Radios though.

with radio, you could piggy back a carrier wave with frequencies that could denote content rating... silent to the human ear...

but you'd then have to purchase radios with the ability to pick up this carrier wave... but it would only be at the cost of those that are concerned with monitoring the content they listen to...

[Hey Bubu]

I think the radio idea might be a tad too far off. Mainly because children probably watch more TV than they listen to radio. Plus those that might listen to radio will more than likely do so when they are riding with their parents and I can't honestly see a 16yr old being too happy with their parents controlling their radio listening habits on their car. Hell for that matter they can go off and buy a CD with explicit content.

[johnny861]

Originally posted by TypeH
I think the radio idea might be a tad too far off. Mainly because children probably watch more TV than they listen to radio. Plus those that might listen to radio will more than likely do so when they are riding with their parents and I can't honestly see a 16yr old being too happy with their parents controlling their radio listening habits on their car. Hell for that matter they can go off and buy a CD with explicit content.

I understand that there are going to be issues, but at least it puts the issue back at home, instead of having the potential of it flooding our court system.

The principle of the idea is to strike a moderate compromise between the two extreme views on this issue, but I agree that the same principle must be applied to all "free" forms of broadcast media as well.

CD purchases and radio/ tv are two different issue altogether.

One is free to listen to, while the other requires a purchase.

[Adam D]

Wouldn't it be easiest to have the parents monitor their own children rather than force radio stations or people (depending on which solution you advocate) to do the parenting for them?

[johnny861]

Originally posted by Adam D
Wouldn't it be easiest to have the parents monitor their own children rather than force radio stations or people (depending on which solution you advocate) to do the parenting for them?

It would be easier, provided you convince every individual that objects to hearing vile content on the radio to simply "turn the station" as it were, but for some reason, and perhaps many reasons, there are many people that feel such content they deem indecent, should not be readily accessible to the public, possibly the same advocates that probably petition for the closing of strip clubs and sex shops.

On the other side of the coin, you have freedom of speech advocates that feel the the indecency prohibitionists arugment is unjust to the american people and feel there should be no censoring at all.

Neither side is compromising and so the issue grows and most of us in the middle look around at eachother and remark... what's the big deal? And so we probe into the issue and get tangled up in the debate of which we'd otherwise, possibly not notice.

The government has two options: ignore the issue or regulate it.

What I'm suggesting is a compromise... create a detailed standard to gage content and provide a means to use it.

It doesn't necessarily have to be government regulated, but it could be defined by the government as a guideline for media broadcasters to follow.

The advocates for indecency can then petition the media corporations, rather than continue to bother the government, to adopt these guidelines so that these prohibitionists can take advantage of this system.

So if a corporation screws up with the new system and let's a boobie slip, the prohibitionist can lay legal charges against the corporation instead of bothering the government to regulate.

[johnny861]

Come to think of it... That's really not a bad idea to do as an enterprise...

Incorporate with the mission of providing safe content to concerned citizens.

Setup ones own guidelines and means of technological dispersion and work through partnerships with corporations to adopt the technology and create a product for home use...

And with the way technology stands, you might not even have to do that at all... maybe develop pattern recognition firmware for electronic devices, it intercepts the signal identifies anomallies, censors them, reencodes the signal and passes it on to the output device... you could attach something like that to the attenae of a car or the input of a tv. You could probably get government funding to allocate monies to install these devices for free for concerned citizens.


If you push a for-profit corporation with the intent of making this a standard for viewers, you then render the FCC's need in regulating content obsolete... and you get to make a buck of it in the end


Ah... the beauty of Capitalism!