The family advocacy group Parents Television Council has condemned the FCC for refusing to address the issue of sex, violence and profanity in a new report on "A La Carte" cable TV programming, which would allow cable subscribers to determine which channels they would like to allow into their homes. In a statement, Tim Winter, executive director of the PTC, said, "Why should people be forced to pay for anal sex on FX when they want the Disney Channel? ... Our own research proves that cable television is in the sewer and that parents want the power to choose their stations. If the cable industry won't do it, then we'll take our fight to our elected officials and demand that they give American families the freedom to choose smut-free television." The FCC study concluded that allowing consumers to pick and choose cable stations would result in higher bills to subscribers and force smaller cable networks off the air.
Not that I'm on the side of smut, but what about the freedom to choose smut-FILLED television? Let's not color this on only one side, folks. There's just as much right to smut-free television as there is to smut-filled television. If we're going to talk about freedom, let's talk about FREEDOM, not your desire to control our choices.
But they are right that we do have the RIGHT to the FREEDOM to CHOOSE what we do and don't want to watch.
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