03-11-2004, 06:54 PM
The government would have a problem with this website because since we've gone public we're in the public sphere and all the Swastickas and Hitler references might be offensive to some people. They'd try to shut us down too if we were as far reaching as Stern. I think the problem is everyone is concerned with everyone else's feelings and beliefs. It's not enough to say 'don't like it don't listen' anymore. What really bothers me is that the media is never supposed to be censored that's the idea behind free speech. The whole having standards thing is bull shit. In a capitalist system which is what we're supposed to have the government shouldn't regulate Howard Stern the people should. If what he is saying is SOOO bad then let the listeners stop listening, he loses sponsers and the company drops his show. The government is just pissing off people. I don't like Stern personally and I think he stopped being funny a long time ago too but it's the principle behind it. Freedom of speech is absolute. Take the responsibility back to the listeners.
I hold the dubious honor of being the only person never modded who has also never been to a party who in the past had a shared account with a vegetable reference that has had consensual sex with a woman who wasn't from the board that also knows what >) means and remembers the end of the golden age.