Free Republic

Filed at 3:23 p.m. ET PARIS (AP) -- For nearly two decades it has been France's Saturday night naughtiness: no-holds-barred pornography, beamed to TV sets in millions of homes across the land. All the while, few people complained about ``le porno du Samedi soir,'' as the French cheerfully call it -- until this summer. Then government-appointed regulators touched off a cultural debate by urging channels to drop the porn, and at the same time lobbying the legislature for the power to force compliance if TV executives don't go along. The TV porn started back in 1984, when pioneering broadcaster Canal...