The FCC fight against "indecency" ...... that you pay for.

The FCC's Cable Crackdown

(you'll need a site pass or a membership to read the whole thing on Salon.com; site pass is free.)

Well, that's one way to put it.
But if the latest "Chairman" of the FCC and handful of Christian and right wing whacko's have their way, what you pay for on cable could come under fire.

In my opinion, their power over regular broadcasting is BS for the most part, but I do understand because it's coming over the "free" airways (though who do you know still has the big antenna on the roof??) there should be some regulation.

However, what I pay extra for, what is completely up to me or you, is that which is part of pay cable in the form of everything like HBO, Comedy Central or even HGTV.
I bought that. If I don't like it, I stop paying for it and it goes away (of course, if you don't like what's on TV in general, no one is twisting your arm to watch).

Here's a little bit from the above article (which you should read) coming from FCC Chair Kevin J. Martin:

"If cable and satellite operators continue to refuse to offer parents more tools, basic indecency and profanity restrictions may be a viable alternative,"

I have a tool for the parents to use, it's called the FUCKING REMOTE!
If you don't like what's on, turn the fucking channel or stop getting cable!
Don't watch TV, read a damn book to your kids.

Listen to this moron's story:

'Family Research Council legal director Patrick A. Trueman said he recently traveled to a Marriott Hotel in Houston, where he said three separate cable stations -- not pay-per-view stations -- were showing "hardcore pornography," which he described as "sex acts." He demanded that the hotel staff come disable the channels. The staff told him one of the stations was Showtime. "I don't have cable just for this reason," said Trueman, who previously worked on obscenity cases in the Justice Department. "If I had cable, I would not want my children viewing that."'

Showtime? I don't think so. Yea, they play donkey porn on there all the time.
He probably saw an episode of "Queer as Folk" and got a fucking boner.

I guess he had a hard time changing the channels on the TV. Maybe he needs to go back to school or something.

You know what my mother did when there was something on TV that she felt was not appropriate for my brother and I to watch? She turned the TV off or changed the channel.
She also did something that I'm sure is foreign to a lot of the dipshit parents in this world: she read books to us and encouraged us to read as well.

Stop trying to legislate morality and stop trying to tell me what I can watch on TV or hear on the radio when I pay for it!