Tell Congress: No censorship on cable & satellite radio

Censorship in the name of decency on the "public airwaves" is bad enough.

But cable TV and satellite radio?

No friggin way!

Congress and the FCC are more hell bent than ever to regulate decency on cable TV and satellite radio.

Howard Stern has been saying for almost a year and a half that these guys mean serious business.

Below is the same type of form letter that the Parents Television Council has used to effectively get the decency bill pushed through the House of Representatives.

Stern fans and people who believe in free speech need to take the time to speak out to Congress and let them know they need to back off.

Use this ACLU form to tell your member of Congress to protect free speech and leave Cable TV and satellite radio alone.

Send a letter to your Member of Congress online right now!

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From ACLU:

Would "The Daily Show's" Jon Stewart be half as funny with his jokes screened by Congress? Can you imagine "South Park" without the cursing? Is "Sex and the City" sexy without any sex? Without the cursing, the sex or the violence, would "The Sopranos" be a mob hit?

Washington's self-appointed arbiters of morality are targeting cable TV -– home to some of America's most popular and cutting-edge programming -- with new federal laws and FCC rules that jeopardize our most basic personal and creative freedoms. According to them, adults can't choose for ourselves what we or our children see; the government must serve as our chaperone, art critic and censor.

Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), and new FCC Chairman Kevin Martin want to extend censorship to cable TV (that you pay for) and even to satellite radio.

Already, the furor over broadcast and cable "indecency" is at a fever pitch. In February, the House of Representatives passed legislation permitting fines of up to $500,000 for individual instances of "lewd" content on television or radio. Last year indecency fines rose to $8 million from only $32,000 in 2000.

We all understand that many parents don't like a lot of the vulgarity on TV and don't want their children watching it. But that should be their choice, not the choice of Congress, the FCC, and the "morality police."

Send a letter to your Member of Congress online right now!