Comments on: New FCC chairman bullish on deregulation

Kevin Martin tells cable execs that the commission wants to minimize regulation--but it also wants fewer indecency complaints.

[truegenius]

Hands off cable/satellite

It's heartening to hear the new FCC commissioner wants to give the industry some control back. But the FCC needs to take hands off cable, satellite, and pay-per-view outlets. Groups like the Parents' Television Council screamed for the V-chip and got it, plus outrageous fines for anything that even begins to approach conflicting with their sensibilities. As a cable customer I don't want the FCC reaching in with the same so-called cultural mandate for cleaning up TV when I pay for service. I and millions of fans do not want to see a scrubbed up "Queer As Folk" or "The Sopranos" - the "edge" on series like those is the only thing that makes cable/satellite palatable vs. the middle-of-the-road pablum that tries to pass for entertainment on the broadcast networks.

[pcLoadLetter]

FCC

Start fining the group that is responsible for 98% of all complaints. Or at least ignore them.

[Remo_Williams]

Great, another empty uniform.

I hate the FCC.

You have to love it...

These complaints about cussing and sex on cable. I wish they would provide number because my feeling is it is a very tiny number compared to the millions of TV viewers. Only the FCC would consider strangling cable because a very tiny few found something offensive.

The only time the FCC should get involved with this type of thing is if more than 50% of the TV watching public complains. This country works on the majority rules. That is how we elect our government and just about everything else. The FCC should not be making major changes or decisions based on the minority. This is the attitude that our bread dead president has taken as well as the California govenor. Intead of listening to the majority they do what their fan club which is in the minority says.

Robert

[Razzl]

Conspiracy of complaint

Even his outgoing predecessor admitted that the majority of complaints to the FCC about decency are being made by a handful of organized pressure groups engaging in a conspiracy to simulate public dissatisfaction where little exists. It cannot be a secret that the volume of complaint being received is false and politicized, and it's not a good sign that he's pretending not to see--or worse, taking part in--the conspiracy against the public's right to see mature matter on cable tv...