My remote came with ‘off,’ ‘on’ and ‘channel’ buttons.
“Non-sexual nudity” and that would include bare bottoms in the process of having bowel movements, or could be penises while urinating, right.
The Founding States had decided that the BoR's prohibition on certain government powers to regulate our basic freedoms did not apply to the states. In fact, Thomas Jefferson had clarified that the Founding States made the 1st and 10th Amendments in part to clarify that the states can reasonably regulate the press regardless that the states had made the 1st Amendment to prohibit such powers entirely to Congress.
"3. Resolved that it is true as a general principle and is also expressly declared by one of the amendments to the constitution that ‘the powers not delegated to the US. by the constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively or to the people’: and that no power over the freedom of religion, freedom of speech, or freedom of the press being delegated to the US. by the constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, all lawful powers respecting the same did of right remain, & were reserved, to the states or the people: that thus was manifested their determination to retain to themselves the right of judging how far the licentiousness of speech and of the press may be abridged without lessening their useful freedom, and how far those abuses which cannot be separated from their use should be tolerated rather than the use be destroyed (emphasis added); …" --Thomas Jefferson, Kentucky Resolutions, 1798.
And regardless that FDR's activist justices essentially claimed that the 14th Amendment applied the 1st Amendment's prohibition on Congress's power to regulate freedom of press to the states, these justices wrongly ignored that John Bingham, the main author of Section 1 of 14A, had officially clarified that 14A took away no state powers.
"The adoption of the proposed amendment will take from the States no rights (emphasis added) that belong to the States." --John Bingham, Appendix to the Congressional Globe, 1866. (See second half of first column.)"No right (emphasis added) reserved by the Constitution to the States should be impaired…" --John Bingham, Appendix to the Congressional Globe, 1871. (See first half of first column.)
"Do gentlemen say that by so legislating we would strike down the rights of the State? God forbid. I believe our dual system of government essential to our national existance." --John Bingham, Appendix to the Congressional Globe (See second half of third column.)
So the states have the 10th Amendment protected power to prohibit the broadcast of nudity and profanity within their borders, imo, regardless that the FCC is arguably hiring former TSA employees concerning possibly less restrictive regulations.
Regarding the FCC, note that the Founding States made Sections 1-3 of Article I of the Constitution to clarify that Congress has a monopoly on federal legislative powers whether it wants it or not. But the reason that broadcasting companies comply with regulations made by constitutionally undefined "independent federal regulatory agencies" like the FCC (EPA, etc.) is because citizens have never been taught that Congress cannot delegate is legislative powers to nonelected bureaucrats imo. And by establishing such rogue federal agencies, not only is Congress wrongly protecting federal legislative powers from the wrath of the voters in defiance of Sections 1-3 of Article I, but such agencies are arguably a way for corrupt Congress to avoid its Article V requirement to petition the states for specific new powers via constitutional amendments.
Getting back to nuditiy and profanity on the airwaves, based on Jefferson's clarification of 10A-protected state power to reasonably regulate the press, power now limited by 14A, I think that the states have the power to refuse the broadcast of televised nudity and profanity within their borders as much as they can prohibit things like certain plants and drugs from crossing inside their borders.
but maybe with the gayness agenda will have more boys and men showing their stuff.......
funny how that works...
People still watch prime-time TV? How very 20th century.
with slo-mo-and pause on my DVR, there is no brief nudity...