FCC Gets F'ed in the A.

NOTE: This article contains satire and is not to be taken seriously.

Yep, the FCC (Federal Communications Commission, which regulates television, radio, and other media censorship) has been bitchslapped by a new court ruling that says that the FCC has been overly hard with their rulings against the use of profanity and vulgarity, as well as having used their power to break the First Amendment by limiting free speech. They say that the words "fuck" and "shit" are have more than literal (sexual and excremental, respectively) meanings, and so would thus be classified similarly to other "foul" language. Apparently, the worry is that primetime television will be given a "virtual free pass" by allowing cursing of that sort, as long as it does not break the "fleeting, one-time expletives" rule. In other words, you can say what you want, as long as you don't use more than one "serious" curse word per sentence. Apparently, the court ruling also took note of the fact that President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have used such words as well, saying "get Syria to stop Hezbollah to stop doing this shit" and "fuck yourself", respectively.

It seems to me that, as pointed out by some commenters on the above linked-to article, that children will be exposed to things such as the "banned" words sooner or later, and the sooner they are, the sooner they will become used to them and stop thinking that, because they are banned, they are "cool" to spout out like a broken record. Aside from that, some "family" networks will get demand by the majority of their fundamentalist viewers to not include programming that takes advantage of this new court decision, and that means that there will still be "child-safe" content, for those who are unwilling, or unable, to regulate what their kids watch. If nothing else, they can get rid of their television access. I know that I grew up without cable, and I think that others can do just as well without the mind-numbing effects of all-day couch warming. Besides, if it supports the First Amendment, who am I to argue?

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