Do you think free Speech will exist much longer?

Six-Figure Fines For Four-Letter Words Worry Broadcasters


The above article really makes you think about your rights and what the United States is coming to when the FCC has just passed a law that will fine people 325,500 dollars; for indecent language basically for swearing on the radio or television. Wow, was the first thought that came to my immediate mind because that’s a load of money and the FCC is considering to raise it to 500,000. I understand that parents want to have children censored from bad language on t.v. but that’s what the cable guy what parental monitoring and what actual parenting is supposed to be. What’s the most outrageous but expected part of this law is where is stems from how it was passed? Who passed it? Why? All of the W questions that to me say bad parenting, take responsibility for your actions stop blaming everything and everyone else and stop trying to take away free speech completely. The reason that the FCC passed this law was because after the 2004 Super bowl when Janet Jackson’s boob popped out millions of parents screamed at the top of their lungs to Congress to do something to stop these terrible people. Because it was intolerable, what I have to say is stop relying on the tube to baby sit your kids and find someone or find a way to get off their lazy asses and to actually be parents.
It’s just really scary because people are not allowed to say anything without the fear of being fined and this is taking away our rights as ‘Americans’ whatever that means. Just like it speaks of in the article that a lot of artists and even news casters in such are worried that this is taking away their freedom of speech. And the thing is if we allow this then what is next it’s only inevitable that all of our freedoms will be stripped from us and it will have been for some just cause because boobs are not allowed on the tube…
This is one example of how scary this law is; one stand-up comedian took out an indecency-liability policy on himself. Another said he was forced to sign a waiver before he went on the air at a radio station, promising to pay any indecency fine that might result from his appearance. The only ones that are allowed freedom of speech are the few who will pay because under the law, cable channels such as MTV and HBO and satellite radio companies such as Sirius and XM remain unpoliced by the federal government.
All I can say is people seriously need to reevaluate what they are doing because they are taking away the rights that their fore fathers fought for because this is wrong…

If anyone is interested in reading the article check out the website below:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/10/AR2006071001245.html