Bernie Sanders On Internet Censorship (2005)

there's already a V. chip you're perfectly able to keep this so called smut out of your government

doesn't need to do a thing you can do it yourself congressman Bernie Sanders from Vermont I don't mean to sound paranoid but ever

since I announced my satellite deal I am announcing the focus going to satellite radio as

right wingers and people who think that because they don't like something nobody in America should be able to hear it and

it's not just you periodically you're the only congressman that I know them and tell you about this guy right here on the phone Bernie Sanders he

proposed a bill to prevent the government from censoring the content of cable TV shows an internet website yeah

I read about this yesterday yup his of bill was a response to the recently approved house legislation increasing the FCC indecency fines which I don't respond to

exactly what you talk about it seems to me a it's unconstitutional the government does not have a right to get into cable and

number two if people are paying for what they want to see their polite to feel how many different about how it is

people don't like your program anybody else's program you know what they could do they could turn off I just read about a religious broadcaster that was fired this week because

he went on and said of someone asked him do you think the pope will go to heaven was a theoretical discussion and

the guy said something about how only born again Christians can go to heaven you know whatever is whatever it is believed that he

was fired for that right now that you view and then the guy even said that the district is she I I never did anything like Howard Stern why they firing me because

it doesn't stop with me they're gonna censor Tony soprano they're going to say exactly what they're going to let me tell you what they already do it I don't know if you don't your

family film saving private Ryan right right fantastic film bright a buffet floated nationally

they were afraid they were going to be fine six zero equipment hero because obviously

in the middle of a war in the film soldiers used profanity the PBF could not recently ported

a film distributed because in the middle of the war in Iraq bombs going off soldiers use profanity they

had to fend for that auditors today here's the key question how many of your fellow a congressman who

I'm actually losing respect for how many your fellow congressmen are going to support your bill alcohol we got about ten on the bill with HR fourteen

forty but I think when the American people weren't what's going on and the fact that the sopranos it

every other show that they like on cable could be censored and more more people will be supporting this bill but we do to help the American people I

I happen to support HR fourteen forty tell them that in America we still live in a free society we

don't want the government regulating every aspect of a like the terms of what we watch tell them that it is an outrage but

the government to the extent it expanding %HESITATION this censorship at regulations to cable and to the internet and