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The FCC, following *gasp* nipple on that most Christian of TV events the Super Bowl, has responded to politicians and the uptight public to clamp down on the filth! the networks are pumping out. Bono said the F-bomb, you know. Think of the Children.

Okay, now I agree that the airwaves are a finite public resource and should be subject to some kind of government regs. But coming from Canada where we don't get uptight at seeing rock stars use the F word on TV or fashion models displaying their boobs, I think the FCC is way too puritanical.

Anyway, the major networks have now sued the FCC. The FCC is responding to the religious Bush supporter. The networks are owned by major American corporations that the Republican government has basically let write their own legislation in past years. For example, when it became clear to Disney (owner of ABC) Mickey Mouse was about to fall out of copyright, Congress did not hesitate to re-write the law. Universal is a major movie/music maker and succeeded in making it illegal for someone who owns a DVD to make a legal backup copy. It is illegal to break into your own property now. The corporations donate large wads of cash to Bush. Microsoft used to donate large wads of cash to the Dems until the Justice Department under Clinton brought the company close to being split into Micro and Soft. When a Bush appointee start leveling $1 million fines at the major networks, that's an attack on a corporation's bottom line. What to do what to do? Oh, another ex general says Rumsfeld sucks? You get the picture.

But then the voting public that backs Bush, the moral majority, sure doesn't want left wing foreigners teaching their kids how to say the f word. In fact, the FCC hints even saying exactly "the f word" is as obscene as saying the real thing. So a Bush organ has to either piss off the corporations the Republicans slavishly re-write laws for or piss off the fundies that vote Republican because they are the party God Himself would vote for.

[Bulsajo]