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I hear you. But judgment calls are what executive agencies are all about and I do think that there is certainty in the determination. Even Howard Stern knows the line. He just doesn't like that the line exists.
Even you know the line. You know it is more offensive to use some words than to use others. And you know exactly which words. A 10 year old might not, but an adult knows. You really do know it when you hear it.
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I know the line as far as what is offensive in a social setting, but not what I can be prosecuted for by the government. Big difference in my mind.
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Originally posted by Not Me I don't get all worked up about the government regulating content on the public airwaves. There are many other vehicles to get a message out nowadays. The corporations that lease the public airwaves don't have an unfettered right to free speech on the public airwaves. The goverment doesn't even have to lease the spectrum at all if it is not in the public interest to do so. I think that the government regulating the public airwaves in 1960, when there was no cable and no internet, was far more of a threat to free speech than regulating them today.
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Hence my slippery slope concerns. There is already noise being made about regulating cable. If successful, do you not think the internet is next?
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Originally posted by Not Me While I do recall from high school and undergrad being taught about the signs "No Irish Need Apply" that businesses would display, I don't remember being taught about widespread Italian discrimination. Not saying it didn't happen at all, and I am sure that every new immigrant group experienced some assimilation problems. But I don't think the italians were discriminated against as a group in a way that compares to what has happened to other groups. For instance, when we were fighting Mussolini's army in WWII, I don't remember any italian internment camps being set up.
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Italians faced the same discrimination that the jews and irish faced in this country, which is one of the reasons why there was so much collaboration between the three groups in the first part of the 20th Century. Example: Mayer Lansky et al, Lucky Luciano, et al, Dutch Schultz et al.
