Silhouette
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Youre missing the point. The exception is when subscription based cable channels rely on sponsors. They CAN show nudity if they want, but that kind of stuff generally turns off their sponsors, so they dont do it for the sake of profits.
If they showed nudity or other explicit adult content, you'd better believe the FCC wouldn't allow them 1. To not conspicuously warn viewers before each show and especially true if interwoven with kid-appealing shows and 2. To do so on packaged cable deals during prime time viewing for kids after school.
TruTV fucked up on this one. And I'm calling them out on it. I've endured more than I wanted to but waited to see if the problem would resolve itself. It hasn't. It's gotten worse. Their modis operandi seems to be pitching shows to draw in young viewers and then the minute the viewership is there like they want, they immediately start infusing escalating portions of adult content into those shows; normalizing it to young viewers. It isn't a mistake that this pattern is exactly the type of things pedophiles do when grooming children to soften them to the idea of sex at too early of an age, just under the radar of hassled, tired and overworked guardians..
TruTV wants to pitch itself as a network qualifying for open-package family type cable viewing, without explicit warnings, and at the same time be able to show explicit material where (and in this case particularly WHEN) they know kids will be watching.
Nope, you're wrong.
Actually, yes, I'm right. The FCC can and will clamp down on anyone not warning viewers in basic "family-type" packages for cable, showing explicit adult content during after-school viewing hours, regardless of parental controls. If a parent has no reason to suspect a network, and sees for all the evidence on cursory glances that network pitching itself as a family-package network, without warnings, then the FCC can step in and investigate potential exposure to children. I argue it's knowing exposure, calculated and manipulated precisely to fall under adult radar. There's the crime.