Big Brother Government

2/23/2011 7:07:26 PM #

If you ask me, enforcing these laws was a public safety issue. The volume of commercials were getting so loud you could go deaf! I'm normally against government involvement, but if we're paying for cable, we shouldn't have to put up with any advertising at all. For those of you who are too young to know, when cable first came out, no commercial advertising was the premise under which they took power. They lied to us. They should be drawn and quartered for it!

Joe | Reply

2/24/2011 2:43:34 PM #

As annoying as loud commercials are, you the individual has the ability to call the cable company or advertiser and complain or choose not to watch networks that allow loud commercials. Having government intervene on your behalf and allowing them to decide what is best for us is nothing more than the slow erosion of liberty and personal responsibility.  The simple freedom of choosing to do something about the loudness of a commercial now belongs to the government and they will now dictated what a commercial sounds like today and tomorrow they may be telling us what the content of a commercial will need to be, to be a “Public” commercial.  20 years ago you would have thought it ludicrous for a city government to outlaw happy meals because the toy inside was enticing and causing the kids to become overweight...when poor parenting is the real cause of the problem.
          The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves.  - Dresden James

David | Reply