Cable To Be Censored for Indecency, Too?

Are you kidding me?

If the chairmen of the two Congressional committees overseeing the broadcasting industry have their say, cable TV programs and satellite radio programs will be subjected to the same rules on indecency as other broadcasters. Senator Ted Stevens, who heads the Senate Commerce Committee said Tuesday if cable companies continue to maintain that they can't be regulated on content, "We'll take them on and let the courts decide. ... I think they ought to play [by] ... the same rules." Congressman Joe Barton, who heads the House Commerce Committee, agreed saying that all broadcasters "ought to play on the same field." Their remarks were immediately hailed by the broadcast industry, which has long held that it is being forced to compete against cable on an uneven field. Edward Fritts, president of the National Association of Broadcasters (the two Congressional leaders spoke at an NAB seminar), told the Associated Press Tuesday: "A 5-year-old doesn't know if they're watching cable or over-the-air." But Brian Dietz, a spokesman for the National Cable Television Association, noted Tuesday that the Supreme Court has already ruled on the issue. "The ability of cable customers to block unwanted programming through the use of tools offered by local cable systems, strongly differentiate cable from broadcasting, which is distributed free and unfiltered over the air," he said.

If children are the measuring stick for everything in society, then why don't we start censoring books, too? A 5-year-old doesn't know if it's reading "The Cat in the Hat" or "The Kama Sutra." Come on. We've already had this hearing years ago. We have to stop pretending that it's not the job of the parents to learn how to raise their children. It's not the government's job to make sure my kids don't see boobies. It's my job. And maybe, just maybe, I want my child to see boobies.

Fuckers.