FCC commisar wants to earn hanging

Major Variola (ret.) mv at cdc.gov
Fri Feb 27 08:19:08 PST 2004


NEW YORK, Feb 25 (Reuters) - U.S. regulators should consider whether
radio and television services carried by cable and satellite must adhere
to indecency standards, Federal Communications Commissioner Kevin Martin
said on Wednesday.

http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/040225/tech_summit_indecency_1.html

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If the FCC can regulate the content of *private* media which one must
choose (and pay) to receive, what is to stop them from regulating the
Internet or other interstate media?   Such attempts would be a
treasonous
violation of the 1st.





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