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Originally Posted by Stompy
The american people lack basic common sense and are hypocritical. The end.
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And whatever country you come from has people stupid enough to make generalizations like that. We are a nation of puritans, but we're not "hypocritical". Slowly and slowly we're getting rid of the old puritan traditions that you see still today (cursing, nudity on tv, etc etc), but it's even more stupid of you to make a generalization like that.
Secondly, the FCC is actually an illegal department. They inforce their morals on the media, and for instance, the time when Janet Jackson's breast was shown on TV, they force the media to pay fines for indecency. However, that all falls under free speech. You will see a pattern of the FCC of dropping complaints if the television company sues them. They do this because any judge at the appeals court level or the supreme court level knows well enough that what the FCC Is doing violates the first amendment, so it simply avoids confrontation with them. In the end, it uses scare tactics to keep television stations in line, if not anything else. It's pretty sad, because in reality I think that the real puritans in america number only in the hundreds of thousands, but the rest of america has to deal with their abnormally loud voices.
Sorry for the incoherent rant, I just woke up.