Tuesday, November 11, 2008

"fredom's Curse" Vs. Constitutional law

In the article "Freedom's curse", the author discussed the issue of "taboo words" and the use of them over airwaves like radio and television. Lately I feel that society has become corrupt, with the boom of television shows on networks like MTV that have censored profanity every five seconds, people are becoming more and more "common" in a sense. The article discusses past cases when there were issues with FOX putting profanity on the air during hours when children would most likely be listening. Although many people and the FCC disagree with the use of profanity especially by people that are looked up too, the supreme court and George Carlin were on the other side of this issue. George Carlin made a public presentation on "The Seven Word's that You can't Say on TV." He Has a very satiric view with the topic of profanity, especially on TV/radio. The FCC took FOX to court regarding the Profanity issue: FOX won. The supreme court decided that the words were not used in a degrading or sexual sense, more for emphasis. In an article called "Constitutional Law," taken from the Akron Law Review, the article discusses how the strong the FCC feels about the issue of dirty words on the airwaves. The FCC has decided to protect the public fro hearing the seven dirty words from which Carlin satirically says "will curve your spine and put hair on your hands" when heard over airwaves.

In my opinion, although I do swear, I do not feel that there is a need for these words, especially over a public television network or radio. Worse things can start to become of these "taboo words", racial slurs and religious jokes may be next and could cause total stress and chaos in society. We shouldn't open the door for this topic and allow for these words to create bigger problems to occur, even if Freedom of Speech is a law.

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