[Ol' Sparky]

No, obscenity laws aren't wrong. We've always had them and we always will have them over the broadcast airwaves. That is, unless you think the government should allow porn movies and anything else over the public airwaves.

Stern has free speech. He can peddle his trash on CD or on a pay channel.

[Robert_Paulson2]

No, obscenity laws aren't wrong. --STRAWMAN... I never said they were. They can be however selectively interpreted and enforced to control free speech. It's simple, all you need is someone to define for law enforcement, ONE person's speech as obscene using a vague "community standards" interpretation, whilst ignoring another person's speech, even though it also violates community standards.

That is, unless you think the government should allow porn movies and anything else over the public airwaves.--Some folks confuse the government with God. As stated in the great nannystate prayer regarding censorship: "Our nannystate, which art in Washington DC, deliver us from the evil of our own freedom to turn OFF what is in our view immoral... and while you are at it, PLEASE oh great nannystate, stop others from doing all the things that we find offensive too. Find it within your great wisdom to forever define "community standards" vaguely for the purpose of selective enforcemtt against those evil ones who say things we don't approve of. For thine is the POWER, not me and my feeble fingers on the remote control that lyeth in mine own lap..."

Stern has free speech. He can peddle his trash on CD or on a pay channel.Finally I can agree with you. Howard will continue to do it on the public airwaves as he always has, because sponsors are ALREADY paying BIG money to pay for broadcasting his show to a demographic that buys their products. And Clear Channel, who buckled to the moralistic attempts to make a point with the so-cons, by the FCC, will end up losing a big cash cow, as listeners who actually LIKE THAT TRASH you and I consider "obscene" will simply retune their dials to "Infinity" broadcasting, eventually putting the folks at clear channel who buckled into a smaller market share.

The republican party had a policy of terminating with extreme prejudice, the FCC during the republican revolution... when the current spending orgy in Washington DC is over it's infatuation with larger expenditures on government programs to make us "safe" from every freedom we have... there will be a return to the quest for ever smaller, less intrusive governance. and the FCC will either morph into what it originally was, a bandwidth distribution monitor, or become extinct.