On May 15th, XM Radio suspended radio hosts Opie and Anthony for 30 days following the comments of a guest on their show. XM Radio is a subscriber service, not available over the public airwaves and therefore not subject to FCC regulation. Channel 202, The Virus, is now, and has always been a channel with explicit language. There are several audio warnings each day reminding listeners of that fact and the letters XL appear after the channel name on the screen of the unit as a reminder. I believe that Opie and Anthony are just the latest victims in the war on freedom of speech. XM's cowardly acts have punished their fans more so than Opie and Anthony. You may or may not like O & A, but they have a right to express themselves in any way they feel. No one has a constitutional right to not be offended.
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You are free to engage in those kinds of discussions with your friends over beer. Those rights are protected under free speech. However, the bar owner has every right to ask you to leave if he is offended by that discussion, forcing you to continually seek a narrowing number of options to promote the support of such Neanderthalic ideology.
skeptik said:
emotedcreations said:
It's not censorship unless the action is initiated by the government.
Not exactly. It's not a violation of first-amendment rights unless its done by the government. But any authority can censor that which they have authority over.
See, technically I was wrong. I, like yourself, worded the position incorrectly. Apparently humans are fallible!