The Iron Yuppie

Activists Dominate Content Complaints

Apparently, Mr. Powell is among the politicians I mention earlier who do not bother to do any kind of detailed analysis of data. 99.9% of of the indecency complaints are by a single agency! Nice that such a small percentage of the populace are dictating to the rest of us what we can watch, listen to and see.

My favorite is this quote:

Even as some question whether the FCC should let the views of 23 people lead to fines, others take the agency to task for routinely failing to account for many of the complaints it receives. “Over 4,000 people filed a complaint against Married by America. Where do the complaints go?” asked the PTC’s Mahaney.

If the FCC does not keep accurate count, how would she know how many people filed complaints against the program if she (or someone in her organization) was not filing the complaints herself? And if they are, unless they have an organization of 2.55 million people, she represents less than 50% of the people who watched the program. Which means she does not get to say shit (literally or figuratively I suppose).