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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Is there anyone left in the GOP who actually believes the shit the people on this board spout about how markets are the best way to resolve conflicts? Memo to Michael Powell --- the market has spoken, so get the fuck out.
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I'm not one for regulation or censorship, but I don't really see what regulating cable for obscenity necessarily has to do with markets-pro/con. If you're talking about regulation of cable channels for playing janet jackson's breast, there's a good market-failure argument for allowing such regulation in certain circumstances. Namely, misrepresentation/mischaracterization of likely channel content. If you put justin on skinemax, no one can rightly complain, but if you put it on during sesame street, it seems reasonable to call PBS's implicit representation of clean and wholesome entertainment a guarantee that smut will not appear. When it does, the FCC comes in.
Of course, you're free to make a generalized caveat emptor argument with the whole of cable TV, but that seems a bit generalized.
