The PTC is rediculous, they are a strong-arm group of censorship extremists who are so unable to control themselves or their children that they need the government to do it for them. I’m sure many of them were the product of strict parents who actually tried to discipline them and when they got older they told themselves, “my child won’t have the ‘awful’ childhood that I did.” Because of this, they have decided that in order to do that they can’t discipline their children what-so-ever (i.e., spanking, raising their voice, etc), so instead they have decided to find ways to get the government to tell everybody that this or that is so bad. That is why many of these parents have children who grow up resenting them and being bigger problems than they would’ve been if the parents had just done some real, old-school parenting.

The problem with the people on the far-right and far-left sides of the political (or any other subject) spectrum is that they are stubborn and see things with an idealist point of view. The problem with the middle–which there are far more of in this country–is that they don’t care enough about anything to organize and tell these people to back off. That is the one major fault about this country and because of that our so-called freedoms are deteriorating (quite) slowly but surely.

In any event, based on what I’ve read on other blogs (such as Volokh.com), the general consensus is that any attempt to regulate subscription-based TV or radio content has just about zero chance of surviving a court challenge. In that case, the FCC may ultimately find itself forced to choose between doing away with indecency restrictions on the broadcast side as well, or letting broadcast TV and radio slowly die, unable to compete with their subscription-based counterparts on a level playing field.