The Good Old Bill of Frights.
Right, so I was wrong, everyone else was right: there is worse than Michael Powell: The House of freaking Repub....Representatives. House Raises Penalties for Airing Indecency.
The new fine maxes out at $500,000 instead of $32,500, for broadcasting " 'patently offensive' sexual or excretory material may not air between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m., when children are likely to be watching." (Except, perhaps, if you're Oprah.)
Fred Upton, a GOP rep from Michigan, said in a statement:
There must be a level of expectation when a parent turns on the [television] or radio between the family hours that the content will be suitable for children. A parent should not have to think twice about the content on the public airwaves.
Why do we have to stop expecting a parent to raise they own damn kid instead of letting Nanny Samsung or Au Pair Goldstar do it?
Even Fox kind of sees a problem with the bill:
The decision "highlights a significant issue that has not yet been addressed -- that the government must give clear guidance to broadcasters as to what is, and is not, indecent," Fox Broadcasting said in a statement. "Absent such guidance, government action on the indecency issue will undoubtedly have a clear chilling effect on protected speech."
Additional reading/sourcing: www.creativevoices.us and www.buzzmachine.com
And then this: Devil stickers distributed nationwide from the Clovis (N.M.) News Journal.
Ruth Waytz said her husband, Chris "Coop" Cooper, has sold or licensed more than 2 million nude devil stickers in all during the past decade. Until a Clovis man was recently cited for distribution of sexually oriented materials to minors for displaying the 4-by-6-inch stickers on his car, Waytz said the stickers had not been the subject of criminal allegations.
Since when do New Mexicans and Texans not like big titty green women? (coopstuff.com (yeah, that's NSFW).
I've seen Texican women and maybe they're not always green, but they often do fit that description.
[Lance Clemmons, pastor of Clovis' First Presbyterian Church] said all citizens have First Amendment rights to free expression, but there are certain forms of expression that our culture has deemed out of bounds. He said sexually-explicit material is out of bounds.
Bah. Crap ass society. What would Heloise do?
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