Pro-censorship activists threaten FCC with audit

Danny Taggart's Blogarama ^ | 12/13/2004 | Danny Taggart

[billybudd]

Unsatisfied with increasing TV censorship from the FCC, the Parents Television Council is threatening the FCC with a Congressional audit in retaliation for a supposedly inaccurate complaint count. In case you didn't know, 99.9% of the indecency complaints to the FCC came from the PTC. The PTC points out that these complaints come from individuals via PTC, not the PTC itself. In a statement reminiscient of an election recount, the PTC says:

“The FCC needs to count each and every complaint, regardless if the majority complaining are PTC members. ..."

Even though the PTC is technically right, so is the FCC. Go to the PTC web site and you'll see a "File an FCC Complaint" button on the right. It's an easy, no-cost channel for professional complainers. How many of these complaints are frivolous? How many are fake or duplicates (only an email address is used for authentication)? The PTC is clearly using their activist base to spam the FCC via their web site. Their complaint statistics are completely worthless.

[Publius6961]

Their complaint statistics are completely worthless.

One person's opinion.
Mine? completely worthless only from the strange world perspective of deviants and their syncophants.

[billybudd]

I think you mean sycophants.

[Oztrich Boy]

Anyone as obsessed with naugthiness as the Parents Television Cult are pretty deviant themselves. (both Anthony Comstock and J E Hoover kept porno - "just to show other people how bad this stiff was, of course")

[Oztrich Boy]

Instruction; everyone is to ignore - better yet, not notice - the freudian slip in #4. (

[gcruse]

Heh heh heh...