RadiomanATL
Senior Member
Well, you did a fine job of ignoring my post except for one sentence..
Because the one sentence is wrong. And the rest of your post follows from that one sentence. It matters very much how the show comes into your home.
You want to make this a technicality as to the means to an end- and I say (as well as historical case law) it doesnt matter what FORM the communication is in. Cable counts as much as broadcast does.
And yet you repeat the incorrect assertion. It matters very much how the signal enters your home as it relates to the FCC censuring content. If it is a broadcast signal, then the FCC has control over content under the guidelines they have established. This is because the signal is being broadcast over "government owned" frequencies., essentially leased to the broadcast companies. And the signal is free and clear to be picked up by anyone with a television receiver.
If the signal enters your home via cable or satellite, then the FCC has very little regulatory power over content. This is because the user pays for the right to access the signals, and by doing so consensually agrees with the content being sent.
I do not know what argument you are continually trying to make. But it seems to have nothing to do with mine. That is that the FCC has no regulatory control over content of cable and television signals. I suppose that the FBI does, if the companies sent out illegal images, and I suppose that using cable/satellite signals in the commission of a crime might violate something in the FCC guidelines, but this is not what is being discussed.