Blackmoor Vituperative

I stumbled across an interesting link while looking for filters for my Marineland Eclipse System Twelve aquarium (which is a neat acrylic aquarium, but finding bulbs and filters for it is a pain). StopFCC is a petition to urge legislators to consider carefully before implementing any further censorship on the airwaves, satellite, Internet, and so on. I consider petitions a benign waste of time, much like voting or going to church, so I went ahead and signed it. Of course, the people at the FCC who impose these restrictions on what we are allowed to say , show, write, read, see, and hear aren’t actually legislators. In fact, like most government positions, they aren’t elected at all. They’re simply bureaucrats. Polls don’t mean anything: it only takes one repressed nutcase to complain about a show and get the broadcaster fined. As long as there is some bureaucrat with the power to make decisions over what we are allowed to see and hear, those decisions will be wrong. The problem isn’t that the FCC is too zealous in its unasked-for role as protector of our virgin eyes and ears: the problem is that it has been given that power to begin with.