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Re:Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund by yummyfajitas on Sunday July 20, 2008 @11:56AM (#251425)
Widespread censorship is already here. One example: the following (completely truthful) ad is illegal 29 days before an election:

AT&T has assisted the government in illegally spying on you. Barack Obama did what George Bush asked him to do: he voted to give them immunity for their crimes. Is that "Change we can believe in"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipartisan_Campaign_Reform_Act

Re:Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund by foompy_katt on Sunday July 20, 2008 @12:16PM (#251436)
This has nothing to do with entertainment, or the kind of censorship the moral conservatives would be interested in. It's way off topic. It's not even full "censorship"- there's nobody stopping the creators of such an ad from putting it on Youtube, for example. It just can't be broadcast on TV.

To address your comment somehow- the law you cite is probably unconstitutional. It was struck down by the Supreme Court once before, before being modified and passed again. I doubt the present form is constitutional, since it obviously does restrict speech.

Ironically, you, me, and the far right are the ones who most agree the law is bad :). Conservatives hate that law much more than do liberals. The conservatives' argument is "money is speech".