[ClearCase_guy]

The entire concept of "pushing the envelope" is a desire for destruction, in my opinion. On "The Dick Van Dyke Show", a married couple were shown to have two beds. On "I Dream of Jeannie", Barbara Eden couldn't show her naval. Were these things silly? Perhaps. But did they do any harm?? I say No.

And here we are 40 years later and pretty much anything goes. Mel Gibson's rant? [shrug] Play it on the 6 o'clock news. What's the harm????

Would anyone care to imagine where we will be in 20 more years? Our culture decided a while ago that anything smacking of censorship was bad, bad, bad. I'm really not so sure. I would love it if industries were self-policing, but they obviously are not. I am not opposed to decency laws that would help maintain some kind of family atmosphere in the entertainment business.

[rstrahan]

Sorry. Not the government’s job to regulate speech. Period. Don’t like what’s on TV, don’t watch it. Don’t like a particular music/talk radio channel, don’t listen. Find alternatives. It’s not like there’s two radio channels and three TV channels any more.

What we are doing is not much different from 40 years ago, just more visible.

[erman]

Yo cant legislate morality. The times you describe had parents that would have thrown the tv out the door if two gay guys /gals kissed. Now it’s a shrug Cursing and sexual content is tolerated because we can turn off the tv but not pick and chose individual cable channels. If anybody wanted to really change things we need to make all of cable a pay per channel venue. That way if MTV offends you then its off your list and blocked unless the kids have a seperate account. Blocking channels is hard with cable unless you have a box.