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In regulating such material, we see a quagmire of potential problems. By whose definition is the programming deemed to be unsuitable for broadcast in our county? Would such prohibitions cover only sexually explicit material, or would scenes of graphic violence be regulated as well? What about graphic news footage? Certainly the news film of students squashed by Chinese Army tanks a month ago was disturbing to adults, never mind children. But they were not, by any interpretation of the legal definition, obscene.
As far as suggesting that cable should not be allowed in the county because poor people might unwisely spend their money on the service, since wThen is it the government’s business to tell people how to spend their money? Should they next be told that they can no longer purchase a six-pack of beer on Friday afternoon, or an occasional lottery ticket?
How7 a person spends his money is his business — > whether his choice appears wise or appropriate in the eyes of others or not.
What people watch on television, and whether they choose to spend their money on cable television, seems to us to be a matter best left to individual responsible adults. We see no compelling reasons to inject the government any further into that private sphere.
Government, and its quasi-public committees, has enough to do already. The regulation of television, we feel, is best left to each household’s channel selector and on-off switch.
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