Oh, So you admit the US government regulates what's on TV, Stolen Valour? So regulating some things is ok and doesn't make you "communist" (as if Communists where the only ones that operated propaganda), only if things you don't think should be regulated are regulated. Got it. At least we know what your standard is. Regulation isn't bad, unless the regulator is forbidding something you don't agree with. Have I got that right, Stolen Valour? You're the arbiter of what regulation is perfectly fine and what makes a country equivalent to North Korea?
But let's be clear: the FCC doesn't limit its rules to what's illegal, despite what you imply in your post.
The FCC is barred by law from trying to prevent the broadcast of any point of view. The Communications Act prohibits the FCC from censoring broadcast material, in most cases, and from making any regulation that would interfere with freedom of speech.
www.fcc.gov
The FCC does impose certain restraints and obligations on broadcasters. Speech regulations are confined to specific topics, which usually have been identified by Congress through legislation or adopted by the FCC through full notice-and-comment rulemaking or adjudicatory proceedings. These topics include:
- indecency,
- obscenity,
- sponsorship identification,
- conduct of on-air contests,
- hoaxes,
- commercial content in children's TV programming,
- broadcast news distortion,
- accessibility to emergency information on television, and
- inappropriate use of Emergency Alert System warning tones for entertainment or other non-emergency purposes.
When a note says that something didn't pass the company's censors, what it's usually saying is that it did not comply with the regulator. If the company just felt it wasn't appropriate for it's brand, then it wouldn't show it at all. When a company shows it in every other country except the US but says it didn't pass the censors, they're saying they would've gotten in trouble if they showed it in the US. Or do you think company's just hate money?
C'mon Stolen Valour, are you really that thick?
Says the guys who initially said the US didn't regulate what was on TV and then to go back and editted his post to add kiddie pretend was banned to pretend like he didn't make an assinine statement. Still waiting on you to clear up that assumption you made about me claiming to have a list secondary degree. Did you find where I said that yet, Stolen Valour? Maybe your RCMP drinking buddies who "monitor" threads can help you find it.