Bush pushes to nuke Iran?

[Dirk]

last I checked I have as much free as any American does.

Except when it comes to satellite radio and similiar services.

[NFY]

southern ontario ftw

[Bovidi]

We get satellite radios up here

[Dirk]

Which is regulated by the same entity that regulates open air radio broadcasts.

[Bovidi]

Isn't it only regulated if the broadcasting is from Canada though.  The corporations/radio stations need to play a certain amount of Canadian songs but that doesn't really mean freedom of speech is supressed it just means that radios have more Canadian music to try keeping some of the business in Canada

[Dirk]

It means that a government regulatory agency has the ability (whether it's used or not is irrelevant) to control a pay only, non-public broadcast. That's not the case here. I'm not saying that people are being sent to camps in Canada for putting the word poop onto broadcasts, I'm saying the power is given to that agency to regulate things that the equivalent agency here in the US does not have the power to regulate.

[Bovidi]

Ok yea your are right in the fact that Canada might limit the broadcasting but I would hardly say it is affecting free speech it just has limitation, and honestly if anyone is concerned about the free speech being less then I seriously question what they would find flaws in the U.S. gov't as well.  Like the softwood lumber dispute I would say that what the U.S. gov't doing is actually more restrictive and concerning than a simple ratio of Canadian music to American music

[Kyrie]

I think the point he's making isn't what they are doing, it's what they can do if they wanted. No government is perfect because governments are set up and maintained by an imperfect people.

[Dirk]

I'm not trying to crap on Canada here, nor am I even saying that Canada is some totalitarianistic society. I'm saying that your original statement that I quoted isn't accurate in at least one respect.

[12Stones]

All dirk was saying is that the respective governments are more strict over broadcasting in canada than they are in the U.S.   Neither restriction is annoying though..  I mean I don't really care if people bleep out whatever explicit material they want..  long as I can still hear the music.

[Kyrie]

It's semi-annoying in the states, too. They can't say stripper on the radio? Slut? Ass?
Half the recent fun songs I've heard on the radio sound worse than a walmart edit.

[Bovidi]

What I was trying to say though was the free speech issue with broadcasting isn't really stopping free speech because like Kyrie said in the states they have limitations to and the point about softwood lumber was that the American government has just the same amount of power to prevent people from doing things so basically the free speech is the same.

Oh and just in case anyone thinks it I don't think the U.S. is bad or I hate it or anything I just feel that the softwood lumber is a good example of the control of the American government have over free speech because they managed to ignore the NAFTA rulings so they are powerful enough to limit speech inside their country

[Darwin]

I think Nickelodeon shouldnt be able to say Fart anymore.  My sister will be watching it, and there is stuff on explaining the anatomy of a fart (etc).  Just something I think is a little too lude for kids tv.

[Dirk]

Yeah, lude.  Too bad you didn't watch that episode of Sesame Street.

[Bovidi]

I would say what I watched as a kid was actually worse than what is playing now and days.

Does anyone remember Dragonball and how it suggested a lot of things