[Mariposaman]

It would be hard to argue that our children's lives have been enriched in the last 30 years or so because of extremely lax censorship. Frankly put, the F.C.C. has not been carrying out its charter. Until such time a parent has the ability to block out offensive stations on a typical radio, the Howard Sterns of the world will simply need to tone it down a little.

[waverna]

The FCC's 'charter' is to make sure signals don't overlap and provide order in the granting of licenses to those signals. Once they start regulating content anything goes. Just change the station.

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"It would be hard to argue that our children's lives have been enriched in the last 30 years or so because of extremely lax censorship. Frankly put, the F.C.C. has not been carrying out its charter."

It would be equally hard to argue that "enriching your children's lives" is ANY concern of ANY government agency.

In fact, it would be impossible, according to the Constitution.

"Until such time a parent has the ability to block out offensive stations on a typical radio, the Howard Sterns of the world will simply need to tone it down a little."

Hmm. Where in the First Amendment does it have a clause referring to "when technology becomes available"?

Irrelevant in any case, because such technology exists...the tuning knob, or the on/off switch. Or, simply get rid of the TV. If a person can't bring themself to do those simple things, they shouldn't be able to dictate what OTHERS may watch and hear.

[xrp]

Until such time a parent has the ability to block out offensive stations on a typical radio, the Howard Sterns of the world will simply need to tone it down a little.

Hey Eva Braun, how about if you try actually parenting your children instead of turning them over to the TV or radio?