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Do you have an obligation to your children to bring decency standards into their lives?  Do you think the government should be investigating and prosecuting the porn industry, or levy fines on indecency on the radio or TV?   What is the obligation of what part of society to create or impose "decency standards?"  What are they?

 

WSJ, April 20, 2004:  The Big Chill?

Do we really want to enter an era in which an inadvertent curse word aired during live coverage of a breaking news story would result in fines and possible license revocations? It would be a loss to everyone if the high standards of news organizations like NBC News were sacrificed in the effort to minimize the real risks that apparently are now part of any live broadcast.

Free speech is free speech even for guys like Howard Stern

Given the radio landscape — with its repetitive play, monopoly ownership and dearth of formats — it’s hard to imagine even the government ruining it.

And faced with a duel between those staying up late worrying about indecency and Howard Stern — cash cow and mouth extraordinaire — my money’s on Stern.

Obscenity: For the first time in 10 years, the U.S. government is spending millions to file charges across the country.

Either way, Nguyen, father of a 2-year-old girl, and his co-workers spend their days scouring the Internet for the most obscene material, following leads sent in by citizens and tracking pornographers operating under different names. The job wears on them all, day after day, so much so that the obscenity division has recently set up in-house counseling for them to talk about what they're seeing and how it is affecting them.

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The problem with porn, and decency standards, is that ANY restrictions violate free speech and any "standard" winds up being nothing more than what the strongest, loudest religious lunatic fringe do-gooder can push Congress into enacting.  Neither a church nor a government should  try to set public decency standards.  Each person should be free to view, or not view, listen or not listen -- to any public media.  Every media type should be free to set its own rules, if any, for decency -- allow the consumer to choose -- that is true freedom of choice and speech.

 

Society is fighting a cultural war just as important as the war on terrorism.  There is no question that "society is losing the battle on public decency" with the level of PUBLIC INDECENCY increasing daily!  When that indecency moves out of private places into the public arena and airways, society has the right to object and impose standards.

Decency, like porn, is "in the eye of the beholder."  We will always have a lunatic fringe on both sides of this issue.  NEITHER side should be in charge of setting the standards for what we see or what we cannot see on the public airways. As that lunatic fringe, either side, wins a battle, it always pushes the envelop even further, so that there is then no limit or restriction on indecency or the restrictions stifle not only free speech but creativity itself.  However it can be done by a "moderate majority" -- there MUST be standards for the public airways and only the government has the power to make them effective.  If "government" is controlled by a lunatic fringe, then it is the government that needs fixing, not standards of decency.

I don't care for either of the way the above two choices are worded -- they are too extreme. I do not Wish To Vote on one of them, but am willing to give my opinion on this issue below.

 

    

 

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