with Jeff Jarvis<\/a> on the recent “indecency tax” passed by the House.<\/p>\nIt shouldn’t take much explanation why I’m standing with Jeff; he’s a good guy, we see the world in much the same way (although he’s like a foot taller than I am), and on a fundamental level, I don’t like the idea of some pecksniff fining me out of business because I said a dirty word. And I doubly don’t like the idea of handing the government a tool that could be used to marginalize and criminalize speech…when we’d be told that a modern-day Lenny Bruce is being jailed for swearing, not for challenging the government politically.<\/p>\n
So why, exactly, am I uncomfortable?
\nBecause I was listening to Kevin & Bean on KROQ the other morning as I drove Littlest Guy to school. It was Valentine’s Day, and they were taking calls on “the worst Valentine’s Day stories” – a women whose live-in boyfriend had burned down her parent’s house when the candles he set up in their bedroom as a romantic gesture set the room on fire while he was out getting champagne. Very funny stuff indeed…and then they explained that they’d give her a copy of ‘All Anal Action v3’ as a prize, and I quickly shut the radio off and had some ‘splaining to do.<\/p>\n
Yes, I can listen to CD’s or NPR when I have the kids in the car.<\/p>\n
Yes, there are choices.<\/p>\n
But somehow, when I think about this, or the New York DJ’s Opie and Anthony who egged a couple into having sex in a church (where they were arrested), I kind of squirm a bit.<\/p>\n
Where’s the bottom? Is the market really the only thing that we can legitimately use to determine where the bottom is?<\/p>\n
I don’t know. I do know that I’m damn uncomfortable with much that I see in the mass media today. I’m equally uncomfortable with government censorship.<\/p>\n
Are those my only choices?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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