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March 03, 2005
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Senator wants cable, satellite TV subject to indecency rules.
"Indecency guidelines that over-the-air broadcasters must follow should be extended to cover cable and satellite broadcasters, congressional Republicans who are influential on telecommunications issues said yesterday."
"Most viewers do not differentiate between traditional TV and cable, so they do not know when they might be exposed to objectionable programming, Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, the head of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, told the National Association of Broadcasters in Washington."
Bradley Smith says that the freewheeling days of political blogging and online punditry are over.
"In just a few months, he warns, bloggers and news organizations could risk the wrath of the federal government if they improperly link to a campaign's Web site. Even forwarding a political candidate's press release to a mailing list, depending on the details, could be punished by fines."
"Smith should know. He's one of the six commissioners at the Federal Election Commission, which is beginning the perilous process of extending a controversial 2002 campaign finance law to the Internet."
"Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell on Wednesday issued the draft proposal to abolish the BBC board of governors and replace it with an independent trust that will oversee the world's biggest public broadcaster and a separate executive board focused on delivering BBC services."
"The board was singled out for criticism in an official report delivered by Lord Hutton which centred on one reporter's allegation that the government had "sexed up" evidence of Iraqi weapons programmes to justify its participation in the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq."
(According to recent studies most of you are too stupid to understand what i've just done. or what the feds are proposing, why the brits are scrapping the BBC over one report, or what the mcain-feingold legislation will do to this blog among others. Recent polls indicate you are ignorant sheep who are happy to do what you are told, enjoy ass breaking labor to make your masters wealthier. Should the proposed legislation US legislation to ensure decency on satellite and cable go through, it will be a matter of time before they introduce legislation to regulate the internet, and this blog among many others will cease to be. Just as the BBC will cease to be as we now know it.)
Posted by parody at March 3, 2005 11:42 AM
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