Austin’s congressman, Lloyd Doggett, voted in support of increasing FCC fines for broadcasters. The Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act raised fines from $35,000 per incident to $325,000 when Doggett and his peers voted the act into law earlier this month.

Last year I asked Lloyd why he supported this morality-in-the-media witch hunt. I asked him if it made sense that a broadcaster should be financially crippled for transmitting words that are legally found by the multitudes in public libraries and on elementary school playgrounds. He told me that "there must be some control over what is piped into people’s homes".

fuck lloyd doggett. Passing laws like this is pure busy-work designed to create the illusion of doing something while dodging the much more challenging issues at hand. Drop the violin and take a look at the newspaper, bitch. Rome is burning.

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