For all of you "Free Speech" champions: This is the primary focus of the FCC.

[MarathonMike]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulates fraud by targeting deceptive telecommunications practices and combats indecency by restricting obscene, indecent, and profane content on broadcast radio and television.

Therefore the FCC was certainly within their mandated guidelines when they called out Jimmy Kimmel's deceptive and indecent monologue on Charlie Kirk and "The MAGA Gang" trying to cover up for one of their own.

So can we just stop with the caterwauling about the government "stomping all over free speech" with regard to Jimmy Kimmel and focus on better communication and how we get there from here?
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[Darkwind]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulates fraud by targeting deceptive telecommunications practices and combats indecency by restricting obscene, indecent, and profane content on broadcast radio and television.

Therefore the FCC was certainly within their mandated guidelines when they called out Jimmy Kimmel's deceptive and indecent monologue on Charlie Kirk and "The MAGA Gang" trying to cover up for one of their own.

So can we just stop with the caterwauling about the government "stomping all over free speech" with regard to Jimmy Kimmel and focus on better communication and how we get there from here?
.

You have to give them a few hours to work up a talking point.

 

[Crepitus]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulates fraud by targeting deceptive telecommunications practices and combats indecency by restricting obscene, indecent, and profane content on broadcast radio and television.

Therefore the FCC was certainly within their mandated guidelines when they called out Jimmy Kimmel's deceptive and indecent monologue on Charlie Kirk and "The MAGA Gang" trying to cover up for one of their own.

So can we just stop with the caterwauling about the government "stomping all over free speech" with regard to Jimmy Kimmel and focus on better communication and how we get there from here?
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Yeah, nope.

That's the lamest half-assed attempt at a justification for outright censorship I've ever heard.

 

[Auld Phart]

Yeah, nope.

That's the lamest half-assed attempt at a justification for outright censorship I've ever heard.

That's the lamest half-assed attempt at a justification for outright censorship I've ever heard.

not compared to what you post.

 

[MarathonMike]

You have to give them a few hours to work up a talking point.

I'm shocked I haven't seen a YABUT TRUMP SAID....yet!

 

[White 6]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulates fraud by targeting deceptive telecommunications practices and combats indecency by restricting obscene, indecent, and profane content on broadcast radio and television.

Therefore the FCC was certainly within their mandated guidelines when they called out Jimmy Kimmel's deceptive and indecent monologue on Charlie Kirk and "The MAGA Gang" trying to cover up for one of their own.

So can we just stop with the caterwauling about the government "stomping all over free speech" with regard to Jimmy Kimmel and focus on better communication and how we get there from here?
.

FCC Chair Brendan Carr is being roasted for supporting free speech before attacking Kimmel

FCC chairman Brendan Carr has been a free speech proponent. Just look at his social media posts. But he has a problem with Jimmy Kimmel.

www.usatoday.com

This is the actual mission of the FCC

Federal Communications Commission - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[MarathonMike]

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FCC Chair Brendan Carr is being roasted for supporting free speech before attacking Kimmel

FCC chairman Brendan Carr has been a free speech proponent. Just look at his social media posts. But he has a problem with Jimmy Kimmel.

www.usatoday.com

This is the actual mission of the FCC
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Federal Communications Commission - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Why would we expect the Democrat Controlled Media to report the truth? There is nothing ambiguous about the FCC Charter.

 

[White 6]

Why would we expect the Democrat Controlled Media to report the truth? There is nothing ambiguous about the FCC Charter.

Correct. And the FCC contains nothing about suppressing free speech as one of it's goals or responsibilities. It simply isn't there. Cheat! Read the damned thing sometime. You don't have to be willfully stupid, just to be a Trump supporter.

 

[MarathonMike]

Correct. And the FCC contains nothing about suppressing free speech as one of it's goals or responsibilities. It simply isn't there. Cheat! Read the damned thing sometime. You don't have to be willfully stupid, just to be a Trump supporter.

The Pacifica Foundation case: A landmark 1978 Supreme Court decision, FCC v. Pacifica Foundation, affirmed the FCC's authority to regulate "indecent" content on public airwaves. The case arose from a public complaint about a radio station that played George Carlin's "Seven Dirty Words" monologue during the daytime.

 

[White 6]

The Pacifica Foundation case: A landmark 1978 Supreme Court decision, FCC v. Pacifica Foundation, affirmed the FCC's authority to regulate "indecent" content on public airwaves. The case arose from a public complaint about a radio station that played George Carlin's "Seven Dirty Words" monologue during the daytime.

Indecency is a different and establish concept to keep the youth from seeing too much in prime time. I have no problem with it, but it does not apply, in this case. I had another member argue toward this, and even in support of saying any filthy thing in their mouth on TV, anytime, any movie. You know, I'm no prude, and have heard it all and yes used it all, but that is dealing direct with people not broadcast to youth, whose parents let the watch anything, anytime, as long as they are out of their hair. Also, I am 71 and hate to watch movies cut to pieces, just because seeing them during prime time on a network or regulated cable station. But, still, that is me, and I didn't let my kids watched filthy mouth and skin flicks, at home, when they were living at home. So, yes, I support that primetime ban and put up with seeing some very good dramatic movies, scene and word clip edited.

 

[MarathonMike]

Indecency is a different and establish concept to keep the youth from seeing too much in prime time. I have no problem with it, but it does not apply, in this case. I had another member argue toward this, and even in support of saying any filthy thing in their mouth on TV, anytime, any movie. You know, I'm no prude, and have heard it all and yes used it all, but that is dealing direct with people not broadcast to youth, whose parents let the watch anything, anytime, as long as they are out of their hair. Also, I am 71 and hate to watch movies cut to pieces, just because seeing them during prime time on a network or regulated cable station. But, still, that is me, and I didn't let my kids watched filthy mouth and skin flicks, at home, when they were living at home. So, yes, I support that primetime ban and put up with seeing some very good dramatic movies, scene and word clip edited.

The point of bringing up the FFC crackdown on George Carlin and the 7 Dirty Words is to point out that the FCC has more power to regulate what is broadcast to the public than the much broader First Amendment Right to free speech.

 

[HikerGuy83]

You have to give them a few hours to work up a talking point.

Or get directions from their masters on what to say.

 

[HikerGuy83]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulates fraud by targeting deceptive telecommunications practices and combats indecency by restricting obscene, indecent, and profane content on broadcast radio and television.

Therefore the FCC was certainly within their mandated guidelines when they called out Jimmy Kimmel's deceptive and indecent monologue on Charlie Kirk and "The MAGA Gang" trying to cover up for one of their own.

So can we just stop with the caterwauling about the government "stomping all over free speech" with regard to Jimmy Kimmel and focus on better communication and how we get there from here?
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I am not sure I understand.

Didn't ABC suspend Kimmel? Isn't that ABC's perogative?

What has the FCC got to do with it?

 

[HikerGuy83]

The point of bringing up the FFC crackdown on George Carlin and the 7 Dirty Words is to point out that the FCC has more power to regulate what is broadcast to the public than the much broader First Amendment Right to free speech.

Again, what is this about?

Trump's threats (which are meaningless).

What Trump will accomplish is that his followers will cancel their subscriptions. That is their prerogative.

 

[MarathonMike]

Again, what is this about?

Trump's threats (which are meaningless).

What Trump will accomplish is that his followers will cancel their subscriptions. That is their prerogative.

There was no government action taken against Kimmel. The FCC chair made a statement about Kimmel's monologue and ABC/Disney jumped on it to get rid of the woeful moneypit that is Jimmy Kimmel.

 

[HikerGuy83]

There was no government action taken against Kimmel.

That's what I thought.

The FCC chair made a statement about Kimmel's monologue and ABC/Disney jumped on it to get rid of the woeful moneypit that is Jimmy Kimmel.

Well, if Kimmel, the idiot, makes a statement that is divisive, ABC has to chose what side of the divide is going to be more painful.

I am surprised they suspended him. Most righties probably are already gone.

But they did (their call) and subscriptions dropped. Now he's coming back.

Trump can breathe fire all he wants.....but as JimH52 said....it was (or will be) LEGAL ACTION. In the justice system. But somehow his hemorrhoids (fellow left wing posters) don't get that. And yet he still likens it to N. Korea where this is no LEGAL ACTION, just the army showing up and shutting you down.

 

[Jarlaxle]

I am not sure I understand.

Didn't ABC suspend Kimmel? Isn't that ABC's perogative?

What has the FCC got to do with it?

Nothing. This was the excuse Disney needed to dump Kimmel.

 

[excalibur]