Republicans And FCC On "Decency" Rampage

[twonabomber]

Originally posted by Cathedral
On network stations they need to follow the rules.
On cable and channels you pay axtra for, the choice of content is controlled by the subscriber.

i'm not an unreasonable person. i can understand people who don't want their kids to hear certain words or see tits and ass.

i think it's funny that those people think they can control EVERYTHING their kids see and hear, because once little Johnny goes off to school, chances are VERY good that someone else's kid is gonna drop an f-bomb, or steal a Playboy and bring it in...or their kid "who knows better and wouldn't do that" is going to go to his friend's house and watch R-rated movies, or (gasp!) worse, play Grand Theft Auto...

but when it comes to regulating pay services, i say fuck off. you are under no obligation to buy it, and if you do buy it, take the ten minutes or hour or whatever it is and learn to use the parental controls that are provided, and don't tell me what i can and can't watch.

it's not MY job to keep YOUR kid from watching or listening to shit you don't want him to see or hear. like i said, i'm not unreasonable...i'm not driving around with porn playing on my in-vehicle monitors, and i'm not pointing the big-screen out the front window and broadcasting...so keep a leash on your kid, and lemme watch what i want.

(disclaimer - "your" is not directed at anyone in this thread)

[Cathedral]

Originally posted by twonabomber
i'm not an unreasonable person. i can understand people who don't want their kids to hear certain words or see tits and ass.

i think it's funny that those people think they can control EVERYTHING their kids see and hear, because once little Johnny goes off to school, chances are VERY good that someone else's kid is gonna drop an f-bomb, or steal a Playboy and bring it in...or their kid "who knows better and wouldn't do that" is going to go to his friend's house and watch R-rated movies, or (gasp!) worse, play Grand Theft Auto...

but when it comes to regulating pay services, i say fuck off. you are under no obligation to buy it, and if you do buy it, take the ten minutes or hour or whatever it is and learn to use the parental controls that are provided, and don't tell me what i can and can't watch.

it's not MY job to keep YOUR kid from watching or listening to shit you don't want him to see or hear. like i said, i'm not unreasonable...i'm not driving around with porn playing on my in-vehicle monitors, and i'm not pointing the big-screen out the front window and broadcasting...so keep a leash on your kid, and lemme watch what i want.

(disclaimer - "your" is not directed at anyone in this thread)

LMMFAO, agreed....

Pay channels are one thing, the freebies are something else completely.
I was that kid who used to watch r rated stuff at a friends house.
Even smoked my first joint with his mother.

I know how the game goes, but it doesn't mean i'm going to ease up on what i feel is proper for my kids.

Perhaps if i had boys instead of girls i may think differently.
But those babies will be coming to my house should they go sleeping around, so i'll do my best to see they respect relationships and their proper place in their lives.

I do know how my parental controls work, and i use them.

Hell, you even have to watch the Disney Channel from time to time these days.

[twonabomber]

i used the parental controls to axe all that stuff from my channel list. :D

shopping, kids, and the 700 Club were the first to get the boot...

i was the kid whose mom let him watch R-rated movies. my mom managed movie theaters, and we'd go on Friday or Saturday night and watch a couple movies. i'd say from third grade until a couple years after i graduated, i probably paid to see ten movies.

i really don't remember anyone having to tell me that swearing and fucking and shooting people was wrong...i think i understood that. of course in the mid-70's movies were nowhere like they are now...my mom was cool about it. she knew what we could handle. i mean, i didn't go to the drive in when they had "Skinimax" type flicks (remember H.O.T.S.? lol) but i know a lot of jokes and references went over my head.

[Cathedral]

I saw the Exorcist and the Texas Chainsaw messacre when i was 10...that screwed me up for life, and that's the truth.

All my fun was at someone else's house, then i'd get home and my drunk mother would give me shit about doing drugs and stealing her booze, lol.

I hadn't done any drugs OR stolen any of her booze at that point though.

I should thank her for the idea someday.

[twonabomber]

i didn't make it through the Exorcist. i think i was in the fourth grade...and my little brother sat there and fuckin' laughed at it. same thing with Alien, thing came outta the guy's stomach, and i was GONE. :D probably didn't see Chainsaw Massacre and Day/Dawn of the Dead until we got cable...i liked cop movies, the Pink Panthers, Cheech and Chong...comedies with T&A...

if i stole alcohol, i was busy giving it to girls, trying to get laid. my uncle always had weed and pills around but i wasn't interested in that, i'd always raid his porn collection.

[FORD]

As long as there are remote controls, V-chips, and TV ratings, there's no excuse for government censorship. If you don't like a program, change the channel. If you don't want your kid watching it, block the channel.

Censoring the performance of a 25 year old Rolling Stones song at the Super Bowl was the absolute height of puritanical fucking hypocrisy.

Are the radio stations supposed to censor "Start Me Up" now as well, or not play it at all?

Yeah, we can slaughter 100,000 Iraqi civilians, half of them being children, but God forbid that the words "YOU MAKE A DEAD MAN CUM" are heard on live television.

Where the fuck are the priorities in this world anymore?

[twonabomber]

the PD of the local classic rock station had recorded a PSA/op-ed piece after Nipplegate...he questioned why it was OK to play Pink Floyd's "Money" for 25 years, but now you can't. he refused to edit the songs, and they don't spin those any more.

i thought over time we were supposed to go forward, not backward.

[FORD]

Originally posted by twonabomber
the PD of the local classic rock station had recorded a PSA/op-ed piece after Nipplegate...he questioned why it was OK to play Pink Floyd's "Money" for 25 years, but now you can't. he refused to edit the songs, and they don't spin those any more.

i thought over time we were supposed to go forward, not backward.

Exactly.... how many songs are going to be pulled off of classic rock radio because of this puritanical horseshit?

I guess we can assume Nazareth's "Hair of the Dog" will be the next one gone. You can't be messin with a son of a bitch on BCE radio

[twonabomber]

WNCX didn't go as far as the rumored Clear Channel list did. they still play Maggot Brain at midnight on Saturday.

they do an all-request lunch hour weekdays. i called once and asked the guy to play Star, Star, and he got a good laugh out of it.

[FORD]

Originally posted by twonabomber
WNCX didn't go as far as the rumored Clear Channel list did. they still play Maggot Brain at midnight on Saturday.

they do an all-request lunch hour weekdays. i called once and asked the guy to play Star, Star, and he got a good laugh out of it.

Now here's the question.... would they still play "Take A Walk On The Wild Side" by Lou Reed?

That song doesn't have any blatant profanities in it that I can recall, yet the subject matter is "R" rated at best.

So if the "standard" of the puritanical FCC is George Carlins Seven Dirty Words, then the following lyrics are perfectly acceptable:

But she never lost her head
even when she was giving head

Never mind that the subject of the song was a drag queen, for that matter.

Technically, there's no profanity there. But the subject matter is definitely more "adult" than the use of the word "bullshit" in the lyrics of "Money".

[twonabomber]

good question...

other than Dave, i don't listen to 'NCX much any more, not since i bought Sirius.

they still play "Lola," OK not as graphic in the lyrics, but they play it.

[FORD]

I remember singing Lola when I was a kid. I sure as Hell didn't know what the song was about. Probably thought it was some Sesame Street thing because they spelled out the words "c-o-l-a" and "L-o-l-a"

[blueturk]

You might as well say good bye to Seinfeld reruns. Elaine's nipple? The Contest? The Swirl? No way that shit will make it....

[Nickdfresh]

Since when is it the FCC's purview to censor again? I mean, they were created to regulate frequencies... Weren't they?

BTW, I wonder if I'm on a ROTH board sometimes...

[blueturk]

Originally posted by Warham
Somebody here asking what a secular liberal lifestyle is?

How old are you people anyway?

Why don't YOU tell me, then? If I watch shows with cursing and/or nudity, is that part of a "liberal lifestyle"? And if so, does that mean that the sheep who enjoy such programming are living a "liberal lifestyle"? The whole term just seems too broad.