The radio company is allowed to police its own constituents. This is one thing that many Constitution-flashers miss:
The Constitution protects the people from the power of the government, not other citizens. Some offshoots of federal law went byond this ideal, such as employment descrimination law, whih prevented PRIVATE BUSINESSPEOPLE from racist hiring/firing practices.
So, representatives of THE GOVERNMENT cannot censor a priavte citizen or holdback the freedom of the press, but other citizens can, as long as they are bound to other, non-Constitutional laws, like murder or rape.
The privacy issue is large as well, but not directly referred to in the Constitution.
Nevermind. I'm taking my first semester of Law starting next week and I'm just getting revved up for it.
I'll post a rant in a couple months along this line.
cd is right. It's their effing radio network they can play and not play all they want. Many here want them to "censor" bad music. Don't like it? Start your own.
However we can still mourn the loss of the ability to start one so easily and the ever increasing consolidation of media outlets into fewer and fewer mega-conglomerations, all who want only to please the maximum amount of people by displeasing the minimum amount of people etc etc...
I guess I wouldn't cry either if all I had for taste was Mcradio cheese and McCorporate news and McBlinded by McIdeology of Anti-regulation McMalarky
Tthe diet of a civilization in denial of its need for infrastructure .
. .but I don't want to rehash the usual, (that becomes ever so apparent after the crash of hollow McDreams so recently felt.) because I know what the typical responce will be.
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The Constitution protects the people from the power of the government, not other citizens. Some offshoots of federal law went byond this ideal, such as employment descrimination law, whih prevented PRIVATE BUSINESSPEOPLE from racist hiring/firing practices.
So, representatives of THE GOVERNMENT cannot censor a priavte citizen or holdback the freedom of the press, but other citizens can, as long as they are bound to other, non-Constitutional laws, like murder or rape.
The privacy issue is large as well, but not directly referred to in the Constitution.
Nevermind. I'm taking my first semester of Law starting next week and I'm just getting revved up for it.
I'll post a rant in a couple months along this line.
However we can still mourn the loss of the ability to start one so easily and the ever increasing consolidation of media outlets into fewer and fewer mega-conglomerations, all who want only to please the maximum amount of people by displeasing the minimum amount of people etc etc...
McRadio . . . .
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Tthe diet of a civilization in denial of its need for infrastructure .
. .but I don't want to rehash the usual, (that becomes ever so apparent after the crash of hollow McDreams so recently felt.) because I know what the typical responce will be.