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This is the blog for 75 or so Drexel students, most of whom are new to college and new to Drexel.

We'll document the strangeness of college life, try to translate our experience for diverse readers, and chronicle what it means to be a college student during these crazy days of economic turmoil and political battle.

That's it for now; I have to go an play Spore.

Monday, November 10, 2008

Content Regulation of Cable Programming

Freedom's Curse from the Atlantic is about government regulating words that are allowed to be on broadcast on television and radio. People, argue that government have no right regulating what we watch and listen to, even if the government's purpose to keep television and radio shows on a basic moral level.

"Content Regulation of Cable Programming" is an article about how the first amendment, Freedom of Speech, is not being implemented when the government is taking over the rights of people's expressions, never mind how obscene they are. The government's case is that television and radio is a private thing inside every American's house and that it will affect the younger generations growing up when watching obscene shows. In the end it is the value protecting obscene wording from children that this regulation applies, and I would be one of its advocates.

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