The very influential and powerful Senator Ted Stevens has said that the FCC is doing such a great job enforcing the broadcast airwaves, that they should also start policing cable TV and satellite radio, (where they currently have no jurisdiction to regulate "indecent" speech). All it would take is a congressional act to give the FCC the power to start censoring HBO and Sirius Satellite Radio, to name a few services that would see their first amendment rights reigned in. And guess what - there is a congressional act just laying around - it's called the Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act (BDEA), and the House passed it's preliminary version of the bill 389-38 on February 16th.
So why am I thanking Senator Ted?
Because if he tries to extend the FCC's censorship to the cable and satellite industries, he will torpedo the BDEA's chance of ratification. This is what happened to the BDEA last year, when various Senators attached FCC ownership rules to the original censorship legislation. There was so much opposition to the FCC's corporate welfare program (aka "ownership rule reform") last year (on both sides of the aisle ) that the BDEA got bogged down.
I've got my fingers crossed that Stevens' attempt to extend censorship to paid subscription services will be similiarly unpopular by both groups of idiots in the House and the Senate, thereby torpedoing BDEA '05. Here's hoping!
What's next...censoring movies, books, art, music? Wouldn't that be FCCing great!
Posted by: Guest | March 02, 2005 at 10:26 AM
Nah, they got the RIAA for music and MPAA for movies. As for books and "art", what are you, some kinda college snob? We don't need no art!
Posted by: publius | March 23, 2005 at 03:45 AM
This fuckhead is a senator from alaska...the least populated state...and he pays himself the highest salary in all the senate.
I would love to see this cocksucker slingshotted to the hot center of the sun. He is a total fucking scumbag.
If anything we should regulate where his campaign donations are coming from. My bet is that there are large radio companies pulling his strings.
Posted by: Fuck Ted Stevens | January 22, 2006 at 03:58 AM
FUCK TED STEVENS AND HIS ANTI-INTERNET CENTIMENT. TUBES? WHAT AN IGNORANT ASSHOLE FUCK BAG I AM BEYOND RAGE!!!
Posted by: I HATE TED STEVENS | September 12, 2006 at 03:02 AM
Well I found this site because he's back in the news.
When I say 'he', I mean Ted Stevens.
When I say 'back in the news', I mean caught lying and cheating.
I don't get it. This is a man who holds an elected high office, but can't even walk in to an elementary school and talk to fourth graders about being good students and strong future citizens. At the same time those teachers in that school are earning 1/20th of his wage.
It'd be like having a "say no to drugs" assembly for the sixth grade and the booked guest speaker is a local crack dealer who is drunk during the program.
I don't get it: "Series of tubes", but yet I have 3 computers at my house and a Master's degree and couldn't get a job as his shoe shine boy, because he already lined up that 6 figure job for his drunk sister-in-law's 35 year old high school drop-out'ed son.
I don't get it. - I don't think I ever will.
Posted by: GG | July 30, 2008 at 02:06 AM