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The Right to Decency

tnorth Wrote: Jul 18, 2012 9:23 AM

That hasn't been sufficient to protect our right to not have access to indecency in our homes, obviously, as there are 1.5 million broadcast indecency complaints pending, many of which are surely valid, even with the free market system. The broadcasters act as they care less about making money, as they do shoving indecency down everyone's throats as part of their deliberate and evil agenda to destroy children and even adult's freedom of choice

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The Right to Decency

*Note - Morgan Bennett is a co-author.

The U. S. Supreme Court decision on broadcast indecency in FCC v. Fox Television, Inc. , (June 21, 2012) (“Fox II”), has reignited an important debate: whether TV networks have a right to distribute indecent material into our homes without our consent. The U. S. Congress prohibited such activity and the high Court upheld that prohibition decades ago. To obtain their licenses to broadcast, networks pledge to act in the “public interest,” but for years, they have abandoned that pledge to promote their own morbid interest in indecency.

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