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Lynne Fremont - 2004-03-14 09:50:34
Well. The good news for bloggers is that blogs arent "broadcast". If someone knows why certain words will damage children as opposed to all the violence and greed and whatever else that is allowed to be broadcast, please let me know. I have been trying to figure that one out for years.
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Laura - 2004-03-14 11:02:00
I second that, Lynne.
Hmm...but I wonder if blogs are "broadcast" or not. I am using the phone lines, after all, for putting forth this little time-delay talk show...somehow it seems like a kind of broadcast...somehow. And a curse word on the radio zips by in an instant, but if it's on a blog someone could go there and stare at it for an hour if they wanted to...so in a way a blog (or any other website) could make "obscenity" all the more accessible. The Internet is a public entity, is it not? Just like the airwaves, supposedly. Yet the FCC doesn't seem too concerned about the former.
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Brandon - 2004-03-14 14:47:34
However, they could play it after 10 PM... you can play pretty much anything after 10 as far as I know.
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Lynne Fremont - 2004-03-14 16:45:30
Part of the deal with the internet is that it isnt regulated by the FCC. I think Congress had tried to take steps to control the internet but so far, they have failed. Think about it. What if they passed a law that no one could swear in a blog. If tht happened, I think there would be a big business in certain small countries to host blog sites. If you post to a server that isnt located in the United States, would that blog be subject to US law? The FCC gets to regulate the airwaves because that bandwidth belongs to "the people." Blogs, however, dont ever get on that public radio bandwidth (wireless connections excepted which could make things pretty interesting.). Cable networks that are never broadcast also are not regulated by the FCC. Look at all the swearing that occurs on HBO's original shows.
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Laura - 2004-03-14 17:05:47
Lynne, that's an informative & thought-proving reply...that bit about wireless connections particularly.
Brandon, that's what I've heard, too...all bets are off after 10 p.m.
If the airwaves belong to the people, don't the people have the right to say whether to e.g. kick Howard Stern off the air?
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Steven B. Cherry - 2004-03-15 14:51:07
I thought it was rather funny that someone brought up that it was far easier to explain janet jackson's breast to a child than a four-hour ecrection. (see super bowl commercial for penis drugs)
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