[Dane]

Hell, why not just try not listening?

I have a couple of times on radio and TV. Found it boring, obnoxious, and lacking in any intelligent humor.

The viewpoint seems to be that "if I don't like it, no one should be able to listen". I will never understand nor accept that as a valid point of view.

Not at all. No one is stopping Howard from going on satellite radio. Every society has standards and with the Janet Jackson stunt, people got fed up, and the elected government is responding. Howard happens to be in the fallout and no one pushed Howard into the fallout, he ran there as fast as he could.

[Feiny]

I wrote try NOT listening.

He has every right to be on the radio if a company wants to emply him.

[Salo]

I guess what shocks me is how many people who call themselves conservatives want the government - the federal government, no less - to save them from Howard Stern. We have a free market that is perfectly capable of dealing with the Howard Sterns of the world - let it work. If people are offended by his antics, they will stop listening to him and his show will disappear. If he thrives, well, the free market has spoken.

Does it strike you as ironic that conservatives as a group claim to loath letting the government take away personal freedoms, and are the first to complain about unelected judges legislating from the bench and that there are those among us - on *free republic* - who would be perfectly happy to allow bureaucrats in the FCC tell us what is obscene? Use the off button - complain to his sponsors or whoever syndicates him, but don't let the government do this for you: if the government can do this for you, it will eventually do it *to* you.