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Almost all of Greenwald's counterpoints referred to situations in which public resources were involved: public funding of an art exhibition, public funding of a
by adelevie 16y ago
Almost all of Greenwald's counterpoints referred to situations in which public resources were involved: public funding of an art exhibition, public funding of a play via a university, use of public airwaves.
What's somewhat frightening about the South Park censorship is that cable is not regulated by the FCC for indecency as it's not a public resource.
What's really frightening is that the cable company was able to censor the Internet "broadcast" of the episode.
I don't have a problem with Janet Jackson's breast on CBS, but I respect the complaints of those who do. Spectrum is a scarce national resource, so we should democratically allocate it. Cable, and especially the Internet, should be afforded a much greater degree of freedom of expression.
We no longer live in an open and free society when a man with a web site gets to decide what millions of people can and cannot watch.