[Mark Felton]

"Censorship is not a good thing... it's dangerous and subject to abuse by those in power, either now or later."

Censorship is a great thing. It is a mark of civilization, provided that the censorship is performed by individuals within the realm of their own private property.

Censorship that prevents men from speaking freely on their own property is tyranny.

Let Stern buy out Clear Channel and speak freely.

Note: People are not allowed free speech on community property either (like the airwaves) because it is jointly owned. Democratically assigned community standards should prevail in such instance. Congress is correct to define community standards for publicy owned airwaves.

[Destro]

Censorship along established lines - i.e. rules is a mark of civilization. The problem is that the FCC has no standards. All radio and television broadcasters - to borrow a phrase from Animal House - are always on double secret probation. They never know what they will be fined for and for what reason. The FCC is totally arbitrary in their censorship criteria. When you live under a system where no rules are in place beyond the whims of the overlord it is a tyranny. If you want broadcast standards to be fair - write them down so people know what is allowed and what is not.

[Robert_Paulson2]

good for you!
glad you had the courage and commitment to put it in writing.

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then when those "standards" you are swooning over today are manipulated tomorrow, in order to stiffle YOUR speech... you will remember what you said today.

I know I will.
btw, your rights to free speech are not terminated by location. you can remove someone trespassing from your property because you don't like what they say, but you cannot legally muzzle them or shut them up. Of course, you can elect to remove them, just like you can elect to not listen to howard, just like me.

the "public impact or property" argument can and will be used to regulate every aspect of your own freedoms, some day in the not too distant future. bon apetite.

someday, it will be used to censor speech that YOU and I would both agree with, even amongst us conservatives on the private property of this website domain.

mark it down.

[Ken H]

Do you think that pay radio, like XM, should be uncensored? (aside from obvious illegalities, such as broadcasting threats, etc.)